Genesis 45:6

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

Majority Standard Bible

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

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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Cross References

Genesis 41:35Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

Genesis 41:56When 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 47:23Then 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.

Deuteronomy 21:4bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

Isaiah 30:24The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

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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