Genesis 45:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

More versions

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

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

Genesis 50:20

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.

1 Chronicles 11:14

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.

Psalm 18:50

Great deliverance giveth he to his king; And sheweth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.

Psalm 44:4

Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.

Acts 7:35

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.

Judges 15:18

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.