5
And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6
For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
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God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
8
So it was not you who sent me here, but God; he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard)
