Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

Bible in Basic English

In The 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.

In Context

6For 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.

8So 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.

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Cross References

Judges 15:18After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.

Psalms 18:50\18:49\Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.

Acts 7:35This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:2-16

Joseph Discovers Himself to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1707.) 1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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