And now don’t be worried or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.(A) For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting. God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.[a]

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  1. Genesis 45:7 Or keep alive for you many survivors

And now, do not be distressed(A) and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here,(B) because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.(C) For two years now there has been famine(D) in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant(E) on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[a](F)

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  1. Genesis 45:7 Or save you as a great band of survivors

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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