Genesis 45:6 “For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be…”

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

Geneva Bible 1599

For nowe two yeeres of famine haue bene through ye land, and fiue yeeres are behind, wherein neither shalbe earing nor haruest.

Darby Translation

For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.

Young's Literal Translation

'Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet [are] five years, [in] which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;

Bible in Basic English

For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

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Cross references

“two years”

Genesis 41:29–31 Genesis 41:54 Genesis 41:56 Genesis 47:18

Genesis 41:29–31 · BSB

Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

Genesis 41:54 · BSB

the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:56 · BSB

When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:18 · BSB

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our…

“earing”

Genesis 47:23 Exodus 34:21 Deuteronomy 21:4 1 Samuel 8:12 Isaiah 30:24

Genesis 47:23 · BSB

Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

Exodus 34:21 · BSB

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

Deuteronomy 21:4 · BSB

bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

1 Samuel 8:12 · BSB

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

Isaiah 30:24 · BSB

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5And 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.

7God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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