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 said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 47:25They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favour 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 save many people alive, as is happening today.

1 Samuel 1:19They rose up in the morning early and worshipped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

2 Samuel 16:10The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

Esther 4:14For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

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

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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