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and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

`Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet [are] five years, [in] which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;

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;

and now, ye -- ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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And now, do not be distressed(A) and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here,(B) because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.(C) For two years now there has been famine(D) in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant(E) on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[a](F)

“So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.(G) He made me father(H) to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:7 Or save you as a great band of survivors