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

Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

Earing

Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.

And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

General references

Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

For it is possible that for this reason he was parted from you for a time, so that you might have him for ever;