Genesis 45:5-8

Joseph Provides for His Brothers and Family

⁵ And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, _s for God sent me before you to preserve life. ⁶ For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are _t yet five years in which there will be neither _u plowing 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 _v ruler over all the land of Egypt.

1. Cross References
   Genesis 50:20
   As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
   Psalms 105:16 - 17
   When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 41:30
   But after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land.
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 34:21
   Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
   Deuteronomy 21:4
   And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
   1 Samuel 8:12
   And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.
   Isaiah 30:24
   And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 45:26
   And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.
   Genesis 41:43
   And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.