Verse 5
Genesis 45:5
Free Bible Version
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But don't be worried or get angry with yourselves that you sold me to be a slave here, because it was God (Elohim) who sent me ahead of you to save lives.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּ֣ה אַל תֵּעָ֣צְב֗וּ וְ/אַל יִ֨חַר֙ בְּ/עֵ֣ינֵי/כֶ֔ם כִּֽי מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם אֹתִ֖/י הֵ֑נָּה כִּ֣י לְ/מִֽחְיָ֔ה שְׁלָחַ֥/נִי אֱלֹהִ֖ים לִ/פְנֵי/כֶֽם
English Translation
And now do not be saddened, and let not your eyes be troubled, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you for the purpose of preserving life.
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Chapter 45 Context
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Joseph couldn't control his emotions any longer while all his attendants were there, so he shouted o...
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But he cried so loudly that the Egyptians could hear him, and they told Pharaoh's household about it...
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“I'm Joseph!” he announced to his brothers. “Is my father still alive?” They couldn't answer him as...
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“Please come closer to me,” he told his brothers. They came over to him. “I'm your brother Joseph wh...
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But don't be worried or get angry with yourselves that you sold me to be a slave here, because it wa...
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The country has suffered from famine for two years already, but there will be five more years with n...
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God (Elohim) sent me ahead of you to make sure you would still have descendants, to save your lives...
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So it wasn't you who sent me here, but God (Elohim). He was the one who made me Pharaoh's chief advi...
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Now hurry! Go back to my father and tell him, ‘This message comes from your son Joseph: God (Elohim)...
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10
You'll live in the land of Goshen so you can be close to me with your children and grandchildren, an...
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I'll make sure you have food, because there are still five more years of famine to come. Otherwise y...
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12
Then Joseph told his brothers, “You can all see for yourselves—including my brother Benjamin—that it...
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Tell my father how much I'm respected in Egypt. Tell him everything that you've seen. Hurry! Bring m...
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He hugged Benjamin, and Benjamin hugged him back. They both wept for joy.
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He kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and after that his brothers were able to start talkin...
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Word soon reached Pharaoh's palace that Joseph's brothers had arrived. Pharaoh and his officials wer...
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘This is what you are to do: Load your donkeys with gra...
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Then bring your father and your families and return here to me. I will give you the best land in Egy...
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Tell them to do this as well: ‘Take some wagons from Egypt for your children and your wives. Bring t...
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Don't worry about bringing your possessions because the best of all Egypt is yours.’”
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So that's what the sons of Israel did. Joseph provided them with wagons, as Pharaoh had ordered. He...
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He gave each of them new clothes. But to Benjamin he gave five sets of clothes and 300 pieces of sil...
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Joseph also sent to his father the following: ten donkeys carrying the best things from Egypt, and t...
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Then he saw his brothers off, and as they left he told them, “Don't argue on the way!”
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“Joseph's still alive!” they told him. “It's true, and he's the ruler of the whole country of Egypt!...
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But when they told him everything that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Jose...
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Israel said, “All right, I believe you! My son Joseph is still alive! I'm going to go and see him be...
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