5. Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!
6. For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
7. God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8. So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.