Genesis 45:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without ploughing or harvesting.

Cross References

Genesis 47:23

Joseph said to the people, ‘Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.

Genesis 41:56

Now the famine had spread across the whole region, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every land, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel  and fork.

1 Samuel 8:12

He can appoint them for his use as commanders of thousands or commanders of fifties,  to plough his ground and reap his harvest, or to make his weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots.

Deuteronomy 21:4

The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.

Exodus 34:21

‘You are to labour six days but you must rest  on the seventh day; you must even rest during ploughing and harvesting times.

Genesis 47:18

When that year was over, they came the next year and said to him, ‘We cannot hide from our lord that the silver is gone and that all our livestock belongs to our lord. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Genesis 37:2

These are the family records of Jacob. At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives,  and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and travelled throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

Then the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Genesis 41:35

Let them gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. Under Pharaoh’s authority, store the grain in the cities, so they may preserve it as food.