Now therefore be not [a]sad, neither grieved with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: (A)For God did send me before you for your preservation.

For now two years of famine have been through the land, and five years are behind, wherein neither shall be earing nor harvest.

Wherefore God sent me before you to preserve your posterity in this land, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:5 This example teacheth that we must by all means comfort them, which are truly humbled and wounded for their sins.

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