Genesis 45:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Judg 15:18 : 18 He was very thirsty and called on the LORD, and said, You have given this great deliverance into the hand of your servant: and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
  • 1 Chr 11:14 : 14 But they stationed themselves in the midst of that piece of ground and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.
  • Ps 18:50 : 50 Great deliverance he gives to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants forevermore.
  • Ps 44:4 : 4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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  • Gen 45:8-13
    6 verses
    87%

    8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

    9 Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.

    10 And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.

    11 And there I will provide for you; for there are still five years of famine, lest you and your household and all that you have come to poverty.

    12 And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

    13 And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall hurry and bring my father down here.

  • Gen 45:4-6
    3 verses
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    4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

    5 Now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

    6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

  • Gen 50:19-21
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    19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

    20 But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

    21 Now therefore fear not, I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.

  • 17 He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

  • Acts 7:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him,

    10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • 3 And He said, I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

  • Gen 45:17-18
    2 verses
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    17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: load your animals and go, get to the land of Canaan.

    18 And take your father and your households and come to me; and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

  • 28 And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • 14 And may God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

  • 36 This food shall be in reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine.

  • 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

  • 25 And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

  • Gen 47:5-7
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    5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you:

    6 The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and brothers to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any capable men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

    7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.

  • 31 And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

  • 29 Seven years of great abundance will come throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • 41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.

  • 5 And from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.

  • 15 Hereby you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, except your youngest brother come here.

  • 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day,

  • 15 For indeed I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews: and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

  • 21 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

  • 21 And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.