Genesis 45:7

God sent me ahead of you to make sure you would still have descendants, to save your lives in this miraculous way.

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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

6The country has suffered from famine for two years already, but there will be five more years with no plowing or reaping.

8So it wasn't you who sent me here, but God. He was the one who made me Pharaoh's chief advisor in charge of all his affairs, and ruler of the whole country of Egypt.

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Cross References

Judges 15:18Samson was now extremely thirsty, and he called out to the Lord, saying, “You have achieved this amazing victory through your servant, but now do I have to die of thirst and be captured by the heathen?”

Psalms 18:50You have saved the king so often, showing your trustworthy love to David, your anointed, and to his descendants forever.

Acts 7:35This was the same Moses that the people had rejected when they said, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ God sent him to be both a ruler and a liberator, by means of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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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