SinaiGenesis 45:5
World English Bible
Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
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Genesis 45:5 in other translations
And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:5 in context
- 3Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?”
His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence. - 4Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.”
They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. - 5Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- 6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
- 7God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.