Genesis 45:4 meaning and explanation

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!

Genesis 45:4, Berean Standard Bible

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Joseph has just revealed himself to the brothers who sold him into slavery about twenty years earlier, and they are terrified before Egypt's powerful official. He tells them to come near and repeats who he is, naming their wrong openly as the one they sold into Egypt.

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