Genesis 45:7
What does Genesis 45:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 45:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890SoGod sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Context
v.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.
v.7This passage
v.8So 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 ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 11:14
And they stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and Jehovah saved them by a great victory.
- Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
- Judges 15:18
And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
- Psalms 44:4
Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.
- Psalms 18:50
Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.
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