Genesis 45:7
King James Version (KJV)
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
In context
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.
8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
Genesis 45:7 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.