Genesis 45:8

World English Bible (2000)

So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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  • Judg 17:10 : 10 Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food." So the Levite went in.
  • Job 29:16 : 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
  • Ps 105:21-22 : 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions; 22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
  • Rom 9:16 : 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
  • Gen 41:39-48 : 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you. 40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you." 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck, 43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt. 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." 45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly. 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.
  • Gen 45:5 : 5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

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  • Gen 45:7
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    7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

  • Gen 45:9-10
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    9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

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

  • Gen 45:4-5
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    4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

    5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

  • Gen 41:39-41
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    39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

    40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

    41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

  • Acts 7:10
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    10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Gen 41:43-44
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    43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.

    44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

  • Gen 50:19-21
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    19 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

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

    21 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

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

    6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."

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

  • Gen 39:4-5
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    4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

    5 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

  • Gen 45:17-18
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    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

    18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

  • Gen 46:31
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    31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • Ps 105:17
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    17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

  • Gen 42:6
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    6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

  • Gen 41:16
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    16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

  • Gen 39:1-2
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    1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

    2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

  • Gen 46:3
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    3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

  • Ps 105:21
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    21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

  • Gen 45:20
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    20 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."

  • Gen 47:1
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    1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

  • Gen 44:17
    74%

    17 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

  • Gen 46:28
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    28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 44:15
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    15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

  • Gen 50:16
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    16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

  • Gen 45:13
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    13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."