7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.


In Context

4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

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

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

7 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 here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

9 Haste you, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus said your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt: come down to me, tarry not:

Genesis 45:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

45:7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

45:7But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

45:7And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

45:7And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

45:7So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

45:7And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

45:7And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

45:7God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

45:7and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;