Genesis 45:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ But now, do not be distressed and disheartened or vexed and angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁵ Now, don’t be upset and don’t be angry with yourselves that you sold me here. Actually, God sent me before you to save lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Do not be afraid, and let it not seem to you to be a hardship that you sold me into these regions. For God sent me before you into Egypt for your salvation.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Be 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.

Genesis 45:5 Cross References

Genesis 37:28

9 And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:

Genesis 47:25

6 From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the fifth part is paid to the king, and it is become as a law, except the land of the priests, which was free from this covenant.

Genesis 50:19

1 Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.

Genesis 50:20

2 And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house: and lived a hundred and ten years.

Genesis 50:21

3 And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Ma-nasses were born on Joseph's knees.

2 Samuel 12:12

7 And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.

2 Samuel 17:14

9 And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley: and so the thing was not known.

Esther 4:14

And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand: and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.

Job 1:21

And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life:

Luke 23:34

2 And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.

2 Corinthians 2:11

Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

2 Corinthians 2:7

6 To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?

Philemon 1:15

4 Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke my fellow labourers.

1 Samuel 1:19

4 And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with three calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet very young: