Genesis 45:6

For the famine has already been two years in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.

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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

5Do not be troubled nor angry with yourselves that you sold me here, because God sent me before you to preserve life.

7God sent me before you to keep you alive through a great deliverance and give you descendants on the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:35Let them gather all the food of these good years that come and store the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them hold it for food in the cities.

Genesis 41:56So when the famine was universal throughout the earth, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold food to the Egyptians: but the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:23Then Joseph said to the people, ‘I have bought you and you land today for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you, and you must sow the land.

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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