God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Parallel translations
- KJV And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- BSB God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- NKJV And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- NASB So God sent me ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
- NLT God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors.
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Cross-references · 5
- Acts 7:35“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
- Ps 44:4You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
- Judg 15:18He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
- Ps 18:50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
- 1 Chr 11:14They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
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