Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to keep you alive through a great deliverance and give you descendants on the earth.

Open English Bible (UK)

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 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.

8So now it clear that it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me like a father to Pharaoh and master of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:50for great triumphs he grants to his king, and faithful love he shows his anointed, to David and his seed evermore.

Acts 7:35This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words – “Who made you a ruler and a judge?” was the man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had 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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