Genesis 45:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 37:2

These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

Genesis 41:35

Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

The seven years of plenty that prevailed in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every country, but throughout the land of Egypt there was bread.

Genesis 41:56

And since the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:18

When that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We cannot hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord’s. 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, “Now that I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh, here is seed for you; sow the land.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall rest.

Isaiah 30:24

and the oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat silage that has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

Deuteronomy 21:4

the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.

1 Samuel 8:12

and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.