Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.In other versions
And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
ASV
God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
BBE
So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
DBY
God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
WEB
and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;
YLT
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
ENG
And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
WBT
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
BSB
In context
5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
6For 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.
7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8So 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.
9Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: