Genesis 45:6

New Century Version

No food has grown on the land for two years now, and there will be five more years without planting or harvest.

Cross References

Genesis 37:2

This is the family history of Jacob: Joseph was a young man, seventeen years old. He and his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, cared for the flocks. Joseph gave his father bad reports about his brothers.

Genesis 41:35

They should gather all the food that is produced during the good years that are coming, and under the king’s authority they should store the grain in the cities and guard it.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he began serving the king of Egypt. And he left the king’s court and traveled through all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

The seven years of good crops came to an end in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:54

Then the seven years of hunger began, just as Joseph had said. In all the lands people had nothing to eat, but in Egypt there was food.

Genesis 41:56

The hunger was everywhere in that part of the world. And Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the people of Egypt, because the time of hunger became terrible in Egypt.

Genesis 47:18

The next year the people came to Joseph and said, “You know we have no money left, and all our animals belong to you. We have nothing left except our bodies and our land.

Genesis 47:23

Joseph said to the people, “Now I have bought you and your land for the king, so I will give you seed and you can plant your fields.

Exodus 34:21

“You must work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest—even during the planting season and the harvest season.

Isaiah 30:24

Your oxen and donkeys that work the soil will have all the food they need. You will have to use shovels and pitchforks to spread all their food.

Deuteronomy 21:4

and they must lead her down to a valley that has never been plowed or planted, with a stream flowing through it. There they must break the young cow’s neck.

1 Samuel 8:12

The king will make some of your sons commanders over thousands or over fifties. He will make some of your other sons plow his ground and reap his harvest. He will take others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.