SinaiGenesis 45:5
American Standard Version
And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
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Genesis 45:5 in other translations
Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:5 in context
- 3And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
- 4And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
- 5And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
- 6For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
- 7And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.