Genesis 45:5

Do not be troubled nor angry with yourselves that you sold me here, because God sent me before you to preserve life.

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In The King James Version

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

In Context

4Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Come near to me, I beg of you.’ So they came near. And he said, ‘I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt.

6For the famine has already been two years in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:25They replied, ‘You have saved our lives; let us find favour in your sight, lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.’

Genesis 50:20You plotted mischief against me, but God intended it for good, in order to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of the lives of many people.

Esther 4:14If you persist in remaining silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, but you and your family will perish. Who knows? Maybe you have been raised to the throne for a time like this!’

Psalms 105:16When he called down famine on the land, and cut off the bread which sustained them,

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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