5 But now be not grieved, nor be angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for in order to preserve life did God send me before you.6 For these two years hath the famine been already in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvesting.7 And God hath thus sent me before you to prepare for you a permanence on the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God; and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and a lord for all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.