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Most English Bibles can't carry the full weight of what's in the original Hebrew and Greek. The F.O.G. Bible Project exists to change that — three new translations built publicly (a Study Bible, a Reader's Bible, and F.O.G Jr. for younger readers), plus a word-by-word renewal of Strong's Concordance restoring the depths most translations leave behind. It is Jean Paul's lifelong work, unfolding in public — and you're invited in.

Jean Paul Joseph is the lead editor of the F.O.G. Bible Project. He works from a personal encounter with Jesus first, then draws on the scholarship of respected Jewish and Christian scholars — because the church was Jewish before it was anything else, and those roots change everything about how you read Scripture.

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Genesis 45:1 Overview & Translations

Translations

F.O.G.MPrimary

F.O.G Message

Joseph could no longer contain himself before all who stood around him, so he cried out, "Have everyone leave my presence!" And no one remained when Joseph revealed himself to his brothers.

F.O.GSecondary

The F.O.G

Yosef could hold himself in no longer before all those stationed round him, so he cried out, "Clear everyone from my presence!" And not a soul remained with him when Yosef made himself known to his brothers.

KJV

King James Version

Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Footnotes

Two hitpael (reflexive) verb forms mark this verse. לְהִתְאַפֵּק (lehit'appeq) means "to restrain oneself"—the effort of holding composure against overwhelming emotion; the narrative implies Joseph had suppressed this moment through multiple prior encounters, and now that containment collapses entirely. בְּהִתְוַדַּע (b'hitvadda), from יָדַע (yada, "to know"), is the hitpael form meaning to make oneself known deliberately—not an accidental disclosure but an act of intentional self-revelation, the same grammatical structure the Torah uses when God reveals Himself to the patriarchs.

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