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Genesis 45:7
God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
Genesis 45:7 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 45:7 in other translations
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
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In context
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.
5 Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.
6 For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.
7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:
10 The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:
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