Genesis 45:6

For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The 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.

In Context

5Now then be not grieved, and let it not seem hard to you that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you for life.

7For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:35And let them gather all the food of these seven good years that are coming, and let the corn be gathered under the hand of Pharaoh; let food be kept in the cities.

Genesis 41:56And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians.

Genesis 47:23And Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Behold, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh; take seed for you, and sow the land.

Deuteronomy 21:4And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall slay the heifer in the valley.

Isaiah 30:24Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed barley.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:2-16

Joseph Discovers Himself to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1707.) 1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 4 And Joseph said unto his… Read the whole commentary →

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