Genesis 45:5

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for 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

4Joseph [May he add] said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. “He said, I am Joseph [May he add], your brother, whom you sold into Egypt [Abode of slavery].

6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:25They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find chen ·grace· in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

Genesis 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive. (7)

Psalms 105:16He called for a famine on the land. 2 He destroyed the food supplies. 1

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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