Genesis 45:7
Good News Translation
God sent me ahead of you to rescue you in this amazing way and to make sure that you and your descendants survive.

New Revised Standard Version
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

Contemporary English Version
But God sent me on ahead of you to keep your families alive and to save you in this wonderful way.

New American Bible
God, therefore, sent me on ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives in an extraordinary deliverance.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

to preserve you a posterity.

Judges 15:18 And being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.

1 Chronicles 11:14 But these men stood in the midst of the field, and defended it: and they slew the Philistines, and the Lord gave a great deliverance to his people.

Psalm 18:50 Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, his anointed: and to his seed for ever.

Psalm 44:4 For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.

Acts 7:35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush.

Context
Joseph Reveals His Identity
6For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping. 7And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.8Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.…
Cross References
Genesis 45:5
Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.

Genesis 50:20
You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Genesis 45:6
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