Genesis 45:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years more in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

⁶ We’ve already had two years of famine in the land, and there are five years left without planting or harvesting.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, in which there can be neither plowing, nor reaping.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.

Genesis 45:6 Cross References

Genesis 37:2

Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Genesis 41:35

6 And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not consumed with scarcity.

Genesis 41:46

7 And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corm being bound up into sheaves was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

4 The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:54

5 And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you.

Genesis 41:56

7 And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.

Genesis 47:18

9 Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thins, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.

Genesis 47:23

4 That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king: the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.

Exodus 34:21

4 For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.

Isaiah 30:24

2 And the passage of the rod shall be strongly grounded, which the Lord shall make to rest upon him with timbrels and harps, and in great battles he shall over throw them.

Deuteronomy 21:4

And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.

1 Samuel 8:12

7 Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.