Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. (3)

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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

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.

8So now it was not you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery].

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Cross References

Psalms 18:50He gives great yishu'ah ·deliverance· to his king, 2 and shows chesed ·loving-kindness· to his anointed, 2 to David [Beloved] and to his offspring, forever more.

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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