And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. Treasury of Scripture to preserve you a posterity. Heb. to put for you a remnant.
to save. Judges 15:18 And he was sore thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, You have given this great deliverance into the hand of your servant... 1 Chronicles 11:14 And they set themselves in the middle of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines... Psalm 18:50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever more. Psalm 44:4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. Acts 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge?...
Context Joseph Reveals his Identity
1Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 4And 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. 5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6For these two years has the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be ripening nor harvest. 7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8So now it was not you that 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. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
Darby Bible Translation
So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
King James Bible
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives 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;
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