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.

Now then you sent not me hither, but [a]God, who hath made me a father unto Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:8 Albeit God detest sin, yet he turneth man’s wickedness to serve to his glory.

For two years now there has been famine(A) in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant(B) on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[a](C)

“So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.(D) He made me father(E) to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:7 Or save you as a great band of survivors