“God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 45 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.