And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.

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

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

And God sent me ahead, so that you may be preserved upon the earth, and so that you would be able to have food in order to live.

Et misit me Deus ante vos, ut ponam vobis reliquias in terra: et ut vivificem vos evasione vagna.

And God sent me before you,.... This he repeats to impress the minds of his brethren with a sense of the good providence of God in bringing him to Egypt before them, to make provision for their future welfare, and to alleviate their grief, and prevent an excessive sorrow for their selling him into Egypt, when by the overruling hand of God it proved so salutary to them:
to preserve you a posterity in the earth; that they and theirs might not perish, which otherwise, in all human probability, must have been the case; and that the promise of the multiplication of Abraham's seed might not be made of none effect, but continue to take place, from whence the Messiah was to spring:
and to save your lives by a great deliverance; from the extreme danger they were exposed unto, through the terrible famine, and in which deliverance were to be observed the great wisdom, goodness, power, and providence of God.