Genesis 45:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁷ Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whold house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ God sent me before you to make sure you’d survive and to rescue your lives in this amazing way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ 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

⁷ And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.

Genesis 45:7 Cross References

Genesis 45:5

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.

Genesis 47:12

3 For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had op- pressed the land: more especially of Egypt and Chanaan.

Genesis 50:20

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

1 Chronicles 11:14

9 Saying: God forbid that I should do this in the sight of my God, and should drink the blood of these men: for with the danger of their lives they have brought me the water. And therefore he would not drink. These things did the three most valiant.

Psalm 18:50

The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

Psalm 44:4

1 Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies : and they that hated us plundered for themselves.

Acts 7:35

3 And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Judges 15:18

But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof, and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.