Genesis 45:7
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
In context
5 And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
6 For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
7 God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
Genesis 45:7 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- KJV King James Version
- And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- WEB World English Bible
- God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;
- DBY Darby Translation
- So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.