Genesis 45:7

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 45:7

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 45

⁵ And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

⁶ For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

⁷ God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

⁸ Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁹ Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

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