Genesis 45:7

God sent me here to make a way for your families to stay alive.

Barkly (portions)

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

6This country has not grown any food for 2 years and no food will grow for another 5 years.

8So then, you didn't send me here, God did. And he has made me the most important person that works for Pharaoh. I am like a father for Pharaoh. I look after him and I am the boss of the government and I am the boss over the whole country of Egypt.

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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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