For the famine has been in the land (A)these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. So (B)God sent me ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on the earth, and to [a]keep you alive by a great deliverance. Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a (C)father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:7 As in MT; another reading (cf. LXX) keep alive for you a great remnant

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

For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So 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 a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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