Genesis 45:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 47:23

Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and your lands belong to Pharao: Take seed and sow the fields,

Genesis 41:56

And the famine increased daily in all the land. And Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also.

Genesis 41:54

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.

Isaiah 30:24

And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.

1 Samuel 8:12

And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.

Deuteronomy 21:4

And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown. And there they shall strike off the head of the heifer.

Exodus 34:21

Six days shalt thou work: the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough, and to reap.

Genesis 47:18

And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone. Neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands.

Genesis 37:2

And these are his generations. Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the dock with his brethren, being but a boy. And he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives. And he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

Genesis 41:46

(Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao): and he went round all the countries of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past,

Genesis 41:35

That shall now presently ensue. And let all the corn be laid up under Pharao's hands, and be reserved in the cities.