- For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping.
- But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- "So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.
- Now hurry back to my father and say to him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don't delay.
- You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me--you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.
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- 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 deliverance.
- 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.
- Haste 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:
- And 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:
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