And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, (A)whom you sold into Egypt. But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; (B)for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the (C)famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. And God (D)sent me before you to preserve a [a]posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:7 remnant

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