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And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.
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For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping.
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But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
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“So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.