Genesis 45:4-7

Joseph Provides for His Brothers and Family

⁴ So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, _r whom you sold into Egypt. 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.

1. Cross References
   Genesis 37:28
   Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.