Genesis 45:6 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁶ For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no ploughing and reaping.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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.

Genesis 45:6 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 37:2

This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Genesis 41:35

They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and travelled throughout Egypt.

Genesis 41:53

The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

Genesis 41:56

When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.

Genesis 47:18

When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, ‘We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Genesis 47:23

Joseph said to the people, ‘Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.

Exodus 34:21

‘Six days you shall labour, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the ploughing season and harvest you must rest.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.

Deuteronomy 21:4

and lead it down to a valley that has not been ploughed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck.

1 Samuel 8:12

Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plough his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.