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Afflictions Made Beneficial: Joseph Genesis 45:5, 7, 8

And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you. / God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. / Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Afflictions Made Beneficial: Joseph's Brethren Genesis 42:21

Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

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