Genesis 50:20 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 50:20

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

KJV

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ASV

And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

WEB

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

YLT

As for you, ye devised against me evil--God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

DBT

Ye indeed meant evil against me:God meant it for good, in order that he might do as [it is] this day, to save a great people alive.

About this book

Old Testament

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Cross-references

28 verses on the floor

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Genesis 45:5–8
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 37:18–20
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Acts 2:23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, &c.--Joseph was deeply affected by this communication. He gave them the strongest assurances of his forgiveness and thereby gave both a beautiful trait of his own pious character, as well as appeared an eminent type of the Saviour.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

This does not make sin the less sinful, nor sinners the less punishable, but it redounds greatly to the glory of God's wisdom. He assures them of the continuance of his kindness to them: Fear not;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Where this verse connects

Echo Acts 2:23
'Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good' — Joseph's sentence is Peter's Pentecost logic: 'delivered by the determinate counsel... ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified.'
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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