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Genesis 45:7

“God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”

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⁵And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

⁶For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

⁷God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

⁸Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁹Now return quickly 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 without delay.

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