Genesis 45:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Two years

Genesis 41:29

Genesis 47:18

Earing

Isaiah 30:24

General references

Acts 7:11

Philemon 1:15

Bible References

Two years

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,

And when that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how 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,

Earing

Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

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

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.

Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

General references

Now a famine came on all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

For perhaps because of this he departed for an hour, so that thou might receive him back forever,