Genesis 45:26
Good News Translation
"Joseph is still alive!" they told him. "He is the ruler of all Egypt!" Jacob was stunned and could not believe them.

New Revised Standard Version
And they told him, “Joseph is still alive! He is even ruler over all the land of Egypt.” He was stunned; he could not believe them.

Contemporary English Version
they told their father that Joseph was still alive and was the ruler of Egypt. But their father was so surprised that he could not believe them.

New American Bible
When they told him, “Joseph is still alive—in fact, it is he who is governing all the land of Egypt,” he was unmoved, for he did not believe them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.

Joseph.

Luke 24:34 Saying: The Lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon.

and he is.

Genesis 45:8,9 Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt. . . .

Psalm 105:21 He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

And Jacob's.

Genesis 37:35 And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,

Genesis 42:36,38 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me. . . .

Genesis 44:28 One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not.

Jonah 2:7 I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.

he believed.

Job 9:16 And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.

Job 29:24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.

Psalm 126:1 A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

Luke 24:11,41 And these words seemed to them as idle tales: and they did not believe them. . . .

Context
The Revival of Jacob
25And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan, to their father Jacob. 26And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.27They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,…
Cross References
Genesis 37:31
And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:

Genesis 45:25
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan, to their father Jacob.

Genesis 45:25
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