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Genesis 45:7

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5 And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

6 For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

9 Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

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BSB
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
KJV
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
WEB
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
ASV
And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
DARBY
So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
BLB
And God sent me before you⁺ to make for you⁺ a remnant in the earth, and to give life to you⁺ by a great deliverance.
ÅB
Men Gud har sendt meg i forveien for dere fordi han ville levne dere en rest på jorden, og fordi han ville holde dere i live, så det ble en stor frelse.
OTB
Gud sendte meg foran dere for å sikre en rest på jorden og for å redde deres liv ved en stor frelse.
B1930
Men Gud har sendt mig i forveien for eder fordi han vilde levne eder en rest på jorden, og fordi han vilde holde eder i live, så det blev en stor frelse.

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Cross references

  • Psalms 44:4

    You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

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  • Acts 7:35

    This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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  • Judges 15:18

    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

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  • Psalms 18:50

    Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

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  • 1 Chronicles 11:14

    But Eleazar and David stationed themselves in the middle of the field and defended it. They struck down the Philistines, and the LORD brought about a great victory.

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