Gen 45:4-8, Isa 45:1-5, 49:23, Act 7:20-25 | ESV | STEP | So Joseph said to his brothers , Come near to me, please . And they came near . And he said , I am your brother , Joseph , whom you sold into Egypt .

n[See ver. 3 above]

o[ch. 62:2]

pSee ch. 44:8

q[Job 12:21; ch. 22:21]

r ch. 60:3, 16

s ch. 60:14

t Ps. 72:9; [Mic. 7:17]

u[ch. 40:31]

v Ps. 25:3; Joel 2:27

w Ex. 2:2; Heb. 11:23

x Ex. 2:3-10

y[Dan. 1:4, 17]

z 1 Kgs. 4:30; [Isa. 19:11]

aa[Luke 24:19]

ab Ex. 2:11, 12

Genesis 45:4-8

4 So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, ^awhom you sold into Egypt. 5 And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, ^bfor God sent me before you to preserve life. 6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are ^cyet five years in which there will be neither ^dplowing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. 8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ^eruler over all the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 45:1-5

Cyrus, God’s Instrument

1 Thus says the Lord to ^fhis anointed, to Cyrus,
^gwhose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and ^hto loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2 “I will go before you
and ⁱlevel the exalted places, ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint level the mountains}
^kI will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
3 ^lI will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, ^mwho call you by your name.
4 For the sake of my servant Jacob,
and Israel my chosen,
ⁿI call you by your name,
^oI name you, though you do not know me.
5 ^pI am the Lord, and there is no other,
besides me there is no God;
^qI equip you, though you do not know me,

Isaiah 49:23

23 ^rKings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
^sWith their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
and ^tlick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
^uthose who wait for me ^vshall not be put to shame.”

Acts 7:20-25

20 ^wAt this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house, 21 and ^xwhen he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. 22 And Moses ^ywas instructed in ^zall the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was ^aamighty in his words and deeds.

23 “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart ^abto visit his brothers, the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.