Genesis 45:5-7 ▼

5 and now, do not be grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that you sold me here, for God has sent me before you to preserve life.

6 Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet five years [remain in] which there is neither plowing nor harvest;

7 and God sends me before you, to place a remnant of you in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;