Genesis 45:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ And 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

As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

1 Chronicles 11:14

But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew 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 for ever.

Psalm 44:4

Thou art my King and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.

Acts 7:35

“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

Judges 15:18

And he was very thirsty, and he called on the Lord and said, “Thou hast granted this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and shall I now die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”