Genesis 45:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The famine has been in the land for two years now, and for five more years cultivation will yield no harvest.

Cross References

Genesis 37:2

This is the story of the family of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flocks with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and Joseph brought their father bad reports about them.

Genesis 41:35

They should collect all the food of these coming good years, gathering the grain under Pharaoh’s authority, for food in the cities, and they should guard it.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. After Joseph left Pharaoh, he went throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

When the seven years of abundance enjoyed by the land of Egypt came to an end,

Genesis 41:54

the seven years of famine set in, just as Joseph had said. Although there was famine in all the other countries, food was available throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:56

When the famine had spread throughout the land, Joseph opened all the cities that had grain and rationed it to the Egyptians, since the famine had gripped the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:18

That year ended, and they came to him in the next one and said: “We cannot hide from my lord that, with our money spent and our livestock made over to my lord, there is nothing left to put at my lord’s disposal except our bodies and our land.

Genesis 47:23

Joseph told the people: “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh, here is your seed for sowing the land.

Exodus 34:21

Six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the seasons of plowing and harvesting you must rest.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and the donkeys that till the ground will eat silage tossed to them with shovel and pitchfork.

Deuteronomy 21:4

the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with an everflowing stream at a place that has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.

1 Samuel 8:12

He will appoint from among them his commanders of thousands and of hundreds. He will make them do his plowing and harvesting and produce his weapons of war and chariotry.