A Nile canal near ancient Ankh-​Tawi (Memphis, near Cairo). Built ca. B.C.E. 2560, the Great Pyramids (in background) had already been standing for 8 centuries when Yo•seiphꞋ arrived. The pyramids appear here as Yo•seiphꞋ would have seen them from his wing of the palace in Ankh-​Tawi.

(Review: Previously, Yo•seiphꞋ, who had become the Deputy-Par•ohꞋ of Mi•tzᵊraꞋyim, planted his silver wine goblet in Bin•yâ•minꞋ's sack and had the brothers arrested and brought back to Ankh-​Tawi.)

When the brothers appeared before Deputy-Par•ohꞋ Tzâ•phᵊn•atꞋ-Pa•nᵊeiꞋakh, YᵊhudꞋâh stepped up to speak for the brothers and pleaded to offer himself as a bonded-worker in place of Bin•yâ•minꞋ, as he had promised his father, Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ.

Mi•tzᵊraꞋyim: Ankh-​Tawi,, Pi-Tom and Pi-Ra-moses

Yo•seiphꞋ could contain himself no longer. "Everybody out!" the Deputy-Par•ohꞋ commanded his staff. So there were no longer any of his Egyptian staff standing with him. Then Yo•seiphꞋ wailed so loudly that the Egyptians who had left the room heard it, and even those next-door in the Palace of Par•ohꞋ Sa-hotep-ka-Ra En-yoteph 4^th heard him.

"I'm Yo•seiphꞋ," he blurted out to his brothers. "Is my father still alive?" But the brothers were so frightened they were dumbfounded.

After Yo•seiphꞋ had reassured them, and they had all hugged in a big reunion, Yo•seiphꞋ urged them to go bring their father to Mi•tzᵊraꞋyim.

When Par•ohꞋ Sa-hotep-ka-Ra En-yoteph 4^th heard about it, he, too, reiterated the invitation; and provided wagons and round-trip caravan provisions to bring his entire family and all of his relatives.