And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition God sent me before you to preserve for you a posterity and to continue a remnant on the earth, to save your lives by a great escape and save for you many survivors. American Standard Version (1901) And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. Common English Bible God sent me before you to make sure you’d survive and to rescue your lives in this amazing way. Catholic Public Domain Version And God sent me ahead, so that you may be preserved upon the earth, and so that you would be able to have food in order to live. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live. |
And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
And they stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great victory.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; And sheweth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.