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Genesis 45:5

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45:5Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here,5 for God sent me6 ahead of you to preserve life!

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  1. 5 Heb “let there not be anger in your eyes.”
  2. 6 You sold me here, for God sent me. The tension remains as to how the brothers’ wickedness and God’s intentions work together. Clearly God is able to transform the actions of wickedness to bring about some gracious end. But this is saying more than that; it is saying that from the beginning it was God who sent Joseph here. Although harmonization of these ideas remains humanly impossible, the divine intention is what should be the focus. Only that will enable reconciliation.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

And now don’t be grieved or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

NLTNew Living Translation

But don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you.

KJV 1900King James Version

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.