¹⁵ For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever,

⁵ But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; ^(A)for God sent me before you to preserve life. ⁶ For these two years the ^(B)famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. ⁷ And God ^(C)sent me before you to preserve a ^[a]posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. ⁸ So now it was not you who sent me here, but ^(D)God; and He has made me ^(E)a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ^(F)ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

^20 (A)But as for you, you meant evil against me; but ^(B)God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

^28 (A)to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

⁶ And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, ‘Surely such is our expectation, wherever we flee for ^(A)help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’ ”