Genesis 45:5-7
Holman Christian Standard Bible
5 And now don’t be worried or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.(A) 6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting. 7 God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.[a]
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- Genesis 45:7 Or keep alive for you many survivors
Genesis 45:5-7
King James Version
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
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