Catholic Public Domain Version
"And God sent me ahead, so that you may be preserved upon the earth, and so that you would be able to have food in order to live. "
— Genesis 45:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”
“And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. ”
“God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.”
“God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”
“And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.”
“God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.”
“And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”
And he said to them mildly, “Approach toward me.” And when they had approached close by, he said: “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Do not be afraid, and let it not seem to you to be a hardship that you sold me into these regions. For God sent me before you into Egypt for your salvation.
For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, in which there can be neither plowing, nor reaping.
And God sent me ahead, so that you may be preserved upon the earth, and so that you would be able to have food in order to live.
I was sent here, not by your counsel, but by the will of God. He has caused me to be like a father to Pharaoh, and to be the lord of his entire house, as well as governor throughout all the land of Egypt.
Hurry, and go up to my father, and say to him: ‘Your son Joseph commands this: God has caused me to be lord of the entire land of Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay,
and you will live in the land of Goshen. And you will be next to me, you and your sons and the sons of your sons, your sheep and your herds, and all that you possess.