Genesis 45:7
World English Bible (WEB)
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
In context
5 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
8 So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 Hurry, and go up 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. Don’t wait.
Genesis 45:7 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.