Genesis 45:7 “God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and t…”

Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore God sent me before you to preserue your posteritie in this land, and to saue you aliue by a great deliuerance.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;

Bible in Basic English

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

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Cross references

“to save”

Psalm 44:4 Acts 7:35 Judges 15:18 Psalm 18:50 1 Chronicles 11:14

Psalm 44:4 · BSB

You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

Acts 7:35 · BSB

This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Judges 15:18 · BSB

And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

Psalm 18:50 · BSB

Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

1 Chronicles 11:14 · BSB

But Eleazar and David stationed themselves in the middle of the field and defended it. They struck down the Philistines, and the LORD brought about a great victory.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

8Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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