Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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.

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.

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 these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. 7 God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Cross References

Judges 15:18

He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, "You have given your servant this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?"

1 Chronicles 11:14

but then they made a stand in the middle of that area. They defended it and defeated the Philistines; the Lord gave them a great victory.

Psalm 18:50

He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; he is faithful to his chosen ruler, to David and his descendants forever."

Psalm 44:4

You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob's deliverance!

Acts 7:35

This same Moses they had rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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