Genesis 45:5
King James Version (KJV)
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
In context
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:5 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
- WEB World English Bible
- Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life.