World English Bible
"Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life."
— Genesis 45:5, World English Bible
“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, 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.”
“Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.”
He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.