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Genesis 45:7
Joseph Reveals His Identity
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.
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Berean Standard Bible
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
American Standard Version (1901)
And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Bible in Basic English
God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
Douay-Rheims 1899
And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
Free Bible Version
God sent me ahead of you to make sure you would still have descendants, to save your lives in this miraculous way.
Geneva Bible 1599
Wherefore God sent me before you to preserue your posteritie in this land, and to saue you aliue by a great deliuerance.
King James (Authorized) Version
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
One Unity Resource Bible
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. (3)
Translation for Translators
But God sent me here ahead of you, to keep you from starving, and to make sure that your descendants will survive.
Unlocked Literal Bible
God sent me ahead of you to preserve you as a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
Noah Webster Bible
And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
World English Bible
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Young's Literal Translation
and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;