- "For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
- "God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
- "Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- "Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.
- "You shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.
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- 现在这地的饥荒已经二年了,还在五年不能耕种,不能收成。
- 神差我在你们以先来,为要给你们存留馀种在世上,又要大施拯救,保全你们的生命。
- 这样看来,差我到这里来的不是你们,乃是神。他又使我如法老的父,作他全家的主,并埃及全地的宰相。
- 你们要赶紧上到我父亲那里。对他说,你儿子约瑟这样说,神使我作全埃及的主,请你下到我这里来,不要耽延。
- 你和你我儿子孙子,连牛群羊群,并一切所有的,都可以住在歌珊地,与我相近。
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