Genesis 45:6

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 37:2

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers, and the boy was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

Genesis 41:35

Let them gather all the food from those good years that come and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

The seven years of abundance that were in the land of Egypt ended.

Genesis 41:54

The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but there was food in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:56

The famine was over all the face of the earth, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, and the famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:18

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide it from our lord, that our money is all spent. Our lord also has our herds of livestock. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.

Genesis 47:23

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh; here is seed for you so you may sow the land.

Exodus 34:21

You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at the time of plowing and harvest you must rest.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that work the ground shall eat cured fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and fork.

Deuteronomy 21:4

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

1 Samuel 8:12

and in order to assign for himself captains of thousands and captains of fifties, and to plow his ground, and to gather in his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and the equipment of his chariots.