Genesis 45:6

The Scriptures 2009

“For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting.

Cross References

Genesis 37:2

This is the genealogy of Ya‛aqoḇ. Yosĕph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the young man was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Yosĕph brought an evil report of them to his father.

Genesis 41:35

“And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Genesis 41:46

Now Yosĕph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yosĕph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.

Genesis 41:53

And the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Mitsrayim came to an end,

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of scarcity of food began to come, as Yosĕph had said. And the scarcity of food was in all lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim there was bread.

Genesis 41:56

And the scarcity of food was over all the face of the earth, and Yosĕph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Mitsrites. And the scarcity of food was severe in the land of Mitsrayim.

Genesis 47:18

And when that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We do not hide from my master that our silver is all spent, and my master also has the livestock we owned. There has not been left any before my master but our bodies and our lands.

Genesis 47:23

And Yosĕph said to the people, “Look, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Look, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you work, but on the seventh day you rest – in ploughing time and in harvest you rest.

Isaiah 30:24

and the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground eat seasoned fodder winnowed with shovel and fan.

Deuteronomy 21:4

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

1 Samuel 8:12

and appoint commanders over his thousands and commanders over his fifties, or to plough his ground and reap his harvest, or to make his weapons, and equipment for his chariots.