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Genesis 45:8

American Standard Version

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Genesis 45:8 in other translations

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:8 · World English Bible

Genesis 45:8 in context

  1. 6For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
  2. 7And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
  3. 8So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  4. 9Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not;
  5. 10and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: