Genesis 45:7

In 11 translations

BSB

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.Or and to keep you alive as a great band of survivors

KJV

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.to preserve…: Heb. to put for you a remnant

WEB

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

ASV

And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

LSV

and God sends me before you, to place a remnant of you in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;

YLT

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;

DBY

So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.Elohim

DRC

And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.

GNV

Wherefore God sent me before you to preserue your posteritie in this land, and to saue you aliue by a great deliuerance.

JPS

And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance.

LXXE

For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.

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WLC

וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֤נִי אֱלֹהִים֙ לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם לָשׂ֥וּם לָכֶ֛ם שְׁאֵרִ֖ית בָּאָ֑רֶץ וּלְהַחֲי֣וֹת לָכֶ֔ם לִפְלֵיטָ֖ה גְּדֹלָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἀπέστειλε γάρ με ὁ Θεὸς ἔμπροσθεν ὑμῶν, ὑπολείπεσθαι ὑμῶν κατάλειμμα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐκθρέψαι ὑμῶν κατάλειψιν μεγάλην.

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• Acts 7:35This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• Psalms 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
• Judges 15:18And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
• Psalms 18:50Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
• 1 Chronicles 11:14But Eleazar and David stationed themselves in the middle of the field and defended it. They struck down the Philistines, and the LORD brought about a great victory.

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