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


In Context

4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." When they had done so, he said, "I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!

5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.

6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping.

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

8 "So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.

9 Now hurry back to my father and say to him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don't delay.

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 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;

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.