Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:7 in other translations
| BSB | God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. |
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| WEB | God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. |
| ASV | And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. |
| YLT | 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; |
| DARBY | So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. |
| BBE | God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation. |
| Webster | And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. |
What does Genesis 45:7 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 45:1-15
Joseph let Judah go on, and heard all he had to say. He found his brethren humbled for their sins, mindful of himself, for Judah had mentioned him twice in his speech, respectful to their father, and very tender of their brother Benjamin. Now they were ripe for the comfort he designed, by making himself known. Joseph ordered all his attendants to withdraw. Thus Christ makes himself and his loving-kindness known to…
Genesis 45:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 45:7
- Psalms 44:4
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
- Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
- Judges 15:18
And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
- Psalms 18:50
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
- 1 Chronicles 11:14
And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the Lord saved them by a great deliverance.
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Context
- Genesis 45:6
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.
- Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Dios me envió delante de vosotros, para que vosotros quedaseis en la tierra, y para daros vida por medio de grande salvamento. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Dieu m’a envoyé devant vous pour vous conserver de reste sur la terre, et pour vous conserver la vie par une grande délivrance. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Gott hat mich vor euch hergesandt, um euch einen Überrest zu setzen auf Erden und euch am Leben zu erhalten für eine große Errettung. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Præmisitque me Deus ut reservemini super terram, et escas ad vivendum habere possitis. |