Genesis 45:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors.

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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

And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

Genesis 50:20

Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.

1 Chronicles 11:14

but he and David took their stand in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines, and the Lord saved them by a great victory.

Psalm 18:50

Great triumphs he gives to his king and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

Psalm 44:4

You are my King and my God; you command victories for Jacob.

Acts 7:35

“It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Judges 15:18

By then he was very thirsty, and he called on the Lord, saying, “You have granted this great victory by the hand of your servant. Am I now to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”