Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

God sent me ahead of you to keep you alive on the earth, and to save you all in a magnificent way.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Holman Bible

God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

God sent me [to Egypt] ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great escape.

Bible in Basic English

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And God will send me before you to put for you a remnant upon the earth, and to preserve life for you by a great deliverance.

King James 2000

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And God sent me before you [all] to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

NET Bible

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

So then God sent me before you, to plant for you a remainder in the earth, - and to save you alive, by a great deliverance,

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

me before you
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

שׁארית 
Sh@'eriyth 
Usage: 67

in the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and to save your lives
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

by a great
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

Context Readings

Joseph Reveals His Identity

6 That's because this famine has been going on for two years now in this region, and there are still five years left, during which there won't be any plowing or harvesting. 7 God sent me ahead of you to keep you alive on the earth, and to save you all in a magnificent way. 8 As a result, it wasn't you who sent me here, but God himself! He established me as a father-figure to Pharaoh himself! I'm in charge of his entire palace and ruler over the entire land of Egypt.


Cross References

Judges 15:18

Aferward, he became thirsty, called out to the LORD, and told him, "So, you provided this great deliverance at the hands of your servant, but now I'm to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

1 Chronicles 11:14

but they took a defensive stand in the middle of the field and killed the Philistines while the LORD saved them by means of a great victory.

Psalm 18:50

He is the one who gives victories to his king; who shows gracious love to his anointed, to David and his seed forever. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

Psalm 44:4

You are my king, God, command victories for Jacob.

Acts 7:35

"This same Moses whom they rejected by saying, "Who made you ruler and judge?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

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