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Genesis 45:5-9

Genesis 45:5

Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to save lives.

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

Genesis 45:7

So God sent me ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:8

Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:9

Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.