World English Bible

Genesis 45:5

“Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.”

Verse in context — Genesis 45

Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

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

The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).