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Genesis 45:7

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5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

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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

    Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

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  • Acts 7:35

    This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

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  • Judges 15:18

    And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

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  • Psalms 18:50

    Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

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  • 1 Chronicles 11:14

    And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.

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