Genesis 45:7

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.

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.

KJV
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and to save your lives
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by a great
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{to preserve...: Heb. to put for you a remnant}
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NET © [draft] ITL
God
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sent
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me ahead
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of you to preserve
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you on the earth
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and to save your lives by a great
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deliverance
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.
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.