This is the history of the generations of Ya`akov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.
Genesis 45:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years more in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. American Standard Version (1901) For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. Common English Bible We’ve already had two years of famine in the land, and there are five years left without planting or harvesting. Catholic Public Domain Version For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, in which there can be neither plowing, nor reaping. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping. |
This is the history of the generations of Ya`akov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.
Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Par`oh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
Yosef was thirty years old when he stood before Par`oh king of Egypt. Yosef went out from the presence of Par`oh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
The seven years of famine began to come, just as Yosef had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Yosef opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, *We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Then Yosef said to the people, *Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Par`oh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
*Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.