Genesis 45:7
ContextNET © | God sent me 1 ahead of you to preserve you 2 on the earth and to save your lives 3 by a great deliverance. |
NIV © | But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. |
NASB © | "God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. |
NLT © | God has sent me here to keep you and your families alive so that you will become a great nation. |
MSG © | God sent me on ahead to pave the way and make sure there was a remnant in the land, to save your lives in an amazing act of deliverance. |
BBE © | God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation. |
NRSV © | God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. |
NKJV © | "And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. |
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NET © | God sent me 1 ahead of you to preserve you 2 on the earth and to save your lives 3 by a great deliverance. |
NET © Notes |
1 sn God sent me. The repetition of this theme that God sent Joseph is reminiscent of commission narratives in which the leader could announce that God sent him (e.g., Exod 3:15). 2 tn Heb “to make you a remnant.” The verb, followed here by the preposition לְ (lÿ), means “to make.” 3 tn The infinitive gives a second purpose for God’s action. |