11 translations · Hebrew
Genesis 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
Genesis 50:20 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- As for you, you devised evil against me, [but] God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- While you planned bad things for me, God planned it for good so that in the end many lives could be saved.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַתֶּ֕ם | wə·’at·tem | As for you | H859 אַתָּ֫ה you(m.s.) |
| חֲשַׁבְתֶּ֥ם | ḥă·šaḇ·tem | what you intended | H2803 חָשַׁב to devise: design |
| עָלַ֖י | ‘ā·lay | against me | H5921 עַל upon |
| רָעָ֑ה | rā·‘āh | for evil | H7451 רַע bad: harmful |
| אֱלֹהִים֙ | ’ĕ·lō·hîm | God | H430 אֱלֹהִים God |
| חֲשָׁבָ֣הּ | ḥă·šā·ḇāh | intended | H2803 חָשַׁב to devise: design |
| לְטֹבָ֔ה | lə·ṭō·ḇāh | for good | H2896 טוֹב pleasant |
| לְמַ֗עַן | lə·ma·‘an | in order to | H4616 מַ֫עַן because |
| עֲשֹׂ֛ה | ‘ă·śōh | accomplish | H6213 עָשָׂה to make: do |
| כַּיּ֥וֹם | kay·yō·wm | a day | H3117 יוֹם day |
| הַזֶּ֖ה | haz·zeh | like this | H2088 זֶה this |
| לְהַחֲיֹ֥ת | lə·ha·ḥă·yōṯ | to preserve the lives | H2421 חָיָה to live |
| עַם־ | ‘am- | people | H5971 עַם people |
| רָֽב׃ | rāḇ | of many | H7227 רַב many |
Related verses
- Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- Psalm 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
- Genesis 45:5–8
Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest. God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. …
- Genesis 37:18–20
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes. Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
- Psalm 105:16–17
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
- Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
- Acts 3:13–15
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Genesis 37:4
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
- Acts 3:26
God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
- Psalm 56:5
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
Read all of Genesis 50 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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