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This famine that has ravaged the land for two years will last five more years, and there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors.[a] So it was God who sent me here, not you! And he is the one who made me an adviser[b] to Pharaoh—the manager of his entire palace and the governor of all Egypt.

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  1. 45:7 Or and to save you with an extraordinary rescue. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  2. 45:8 Hebrew a father.

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