5Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.


In Context

2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

3 Joseph said to his brothers, |I am Joseph! Does my father still live?| His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

4 Joseph said to his brothers, |Come near to me, please.| They came near. |He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

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

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

Genesis 45:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

45:5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

45:5And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

45:5Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

45:5And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

45:5And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

45:5And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

45:5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

45:5and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

45:5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life.