Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
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 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five more years in which there will be no plowing and harvesting. 7 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. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Cross References

Judges 15:18

Then Samson was very thirsty, and he called out to the Lord and said, “You have given this great victory through the hand of Your servant, and now am I to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised (pagans)?”

1 Chronicles 11:14

But they took their stand in the midst of that plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the Lord rescued them by a great victory.

Psalm 18:50


He gives great triumphs to His king,
And shows steadfast love and mercy to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forever.

Psalm 44:4


You are my King, O God;
Command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).

Acts 7:35

“This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the very one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, with the [protecting and helping] hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.

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