¹⁵ Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for the long term,

⁵ And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.^{(A) 6} For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. ⁷ God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors. ⁸ So it was not you who sent me here but God; he has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.^(B)

²⁰ Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.^(A)

²⁸ to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

⁶ On that day the inhabitants of this coastland will say, ‘See, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’ ”^(A)