Genesis 45:5

Now then be not grieved, and let it not seem hard to you that you⌃ sold me hither, for God sent me before you for life.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

4And Joseph said to his brethren, Draw near to me; and they drew near; and he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you⌃ sold into Egypt.

6For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:25And they said, You have saved us; we have found favor before our lord, and we will be servants to Pharao.

Genesis 50:20You⌃ took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and much people might be fed.

1 Samuel 1:19And they rise early in the morning, and worship the Lord, and they go their way: and Helkana went into his house at Armathaim, and knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered her, and she conceived.

2 Samuel 16:10And the king said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia? even let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why have you done thus?

Esther 4:14For if you shall refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows, if you have been made queen for this very occasion?

Psalms 105:16They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord. 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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