 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 620 pages
...been in the land ; and yet there are five years, in which there shall be neither earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity...earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now, it was not you that sent me hither, but God." That is, God was the primary and supreme agent,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 618 pages
...been in the land ; and yet there are five years, in which there shall be neither earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity...earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now, it was not you that sent me hither, but God." That is, God was the primary and supreme 'agent,... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pages
...hither: for God did send me h before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years "' hath the famine side Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. 10 TT k you, to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save youi lives by a great ' deliverance. 8... | |
 | John Matthews - Providence and government of God - 1843 - 220 pages
...nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life. God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity...earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you sent me hither, but God." Gen. xlv. 5, 7. Here Joseph ascribes 7* his being brought... | |
 | Piero Boitani - History - 1984 - 270 pages
...and yet one willed by God himself as an instrument of the preservation of Israel's very existence: 'God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity...earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance' (45.7). Thomas Mann has Jacob himself tell Joseph: 'You are the firstborn in earthly things . . . (God)... | |
 | Gabriel Josipovici - Religion - 1990 - 376 pages
...did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land .... And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity...earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord... | |
 | E. W. Bullinger - Bibles - 1999 - 2170 pages
...hither: for ° God did send me before you to ° preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land : and yet there are five years, in...there shall neither be ° earing nor harvest. 7 And 5 God sent me before you to 5 preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great... | |
 | Johanna Manley - Religion - 1990 - 1144 pages
...will be neither plowing nor harvesting. 7 "And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you - who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a... | |
 | Witness Lee - 1997 - 140 pages
...he regarded them as God's helpers. They had helped God to get him to Egypt. In verse 7 Joseph said, "God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity...earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance." The Hebrew word rendered "posterity" is better translated "remnant." God's purpose required a remnant.... | |
 | Raymond Barber - Religion - 1997 - 172 pages
...sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. "For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in...the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. "And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great... | |
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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 a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. 
