Genesis 45:6

Good News Translation

This is only the second year of famine in the land; there will be five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor reaping.

Cross References

Genesis 37:2

and this is the story of Jacob's family. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, took care of the sheep and goats with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's concubines. He brought bad reports to his father about what his brothers were doing.

Genesis 41:35

Order them to collect all the food during the good years that are coming, and give them authority to store up grain in the cities and guard it.

Genesis 41:53

The seven years of plenty that the land of Egypt had enjoyed came to an end,

Genesis 41:54

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

Genesis 41:56

The famine grew worse and spread over the whole country, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians.

Genesis 47:18

The following year they came to him and said, “We will not hide the fact from you, sir, that our money is all gone and our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left to give you except our bodies and our lands.

Genesis 47:23

Joseph said to the people, “You see, I have now bought you and your lands for the king. Here is seed for you to sow in your fields.

Exodus 34:21

“You have six days in which to do your work, but do not work on the seventh day, not even during plowing time or harvest.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that plow your fields will eat the finest and best fodder.

Deuteronomy 21:4

They are to take it down to a spot near a stream that never runs dry and where the ground has never been plowed or planted, and there they are to break its neck.

1 Samuel 8:12

He will make some of them officers in charge of a thousand men, and others in charge of fifty men. Your sons will have to plow his fields, harvest his crops, and make his weapons and the equipment for his chariots.