Joseph's brothers left for their journey to bring Israel to his son, Joseph, whom then lived in Egypt and whom was the right hand to Pharaoh.
They finally reached Canaan and came unto Israel [Jacob], their father. And then they told him the amazing news, saying: 'Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt.'
And Jacob's heart fainted, for he didn't believe them.
So they told all the words that Joseph had spoken to them, and when Jacob saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob revived, and he said: 'It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive, and I will go and see him before I die'.
So Israel began his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
That night God came to him in a vision and called to him: 'Jacob, Jacob'. And Jacob answered: 'Here am I'. The Lord then said to him: 'I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation. I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.'
Joseph rose up from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt ... Jacob, and all his seed with him. All the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt were 310.
Jacob then sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct him to Goshen ... Jacob was to meet Joseph there.
When Joseph got word that it was time to meet his father again, after all the years that had gone by, he made his chariot ready, and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Now, let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.'
Joseph said to his family that he would go to Pharaoh to inform him that they had arrived. He also told them to tell Pharaoh, when they meet him, that they had raised and traded cattle, because sheperds were an abomination in Egypt.
Then Joseph went to meet with Pharaoh and told him that his family had reached Goshen. He even took five of his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
When Pharaoh asked them about themselves they told him what Joseph had told them to tell him.
Pharaoh then turned to Joseph and said to him: 'Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee. The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.'
And Joseph brought in his father and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How old art thou?'
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: 'The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.'
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Source: Genesis 46
