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Genesis 45:8

“Therefore 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.”
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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.

10You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.

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