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Genesis 45:7

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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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  1. Genesis 45:5

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

  2. Genesis 45:6

    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.

  3. Genesis 45:8

    So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

  4. Genesis 45:9

    Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

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