Genesis 45:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ “For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting.

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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.

Genesis 45:6 Cross References

Genesis 37:2

This is the genealogy of Yaʽ

Genesis 41:35

“And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Genesis 41:46

Now Yosĕ

Genesis 41:53

And the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Mitsrayim came to an end,

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of scarcity of food began to come, as Yosĕ

Genesis 41:56

And the scarcity of food was over all the face of the earth, and Yosĕ

Genesis 47:18

And when that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We do not hide from my master that our silver is all spent, and my master also has the livestock we owned. There has not any been left before my master but our bodies and our lands.

Genesis 47:23

And Yosĕ

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you work, but on the seventh day you rest – in ploughing time and in harvest you rest.

Isaiah 30:24

and the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground eat seasoned fodder winnowed with shovel and fan.

Deuteronomy 21:4

and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.

1 Samuel 8:12

and appoint commanders over his thousands and commanders over his fifties, or to plough his ground and reap his harvest, or to make his weapons, and equipment for his chariots.