King James Version with Apocrypha
"Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life."
— Genesis 45:5, King James Version with Apocrypha
“Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.”
“And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. ”
“Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.”
“Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!”
“Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.”
“Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.”
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
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.
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.