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


In Context

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

5 And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

6 For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.

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

8 And 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 governor over all the land of Egypt.

9 Haste and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy 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 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;

The American 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.