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, seven years of great plenty are coming throughout all the land of Egypt.

When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord how that the money is gone; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is not nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands.

Earing

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

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt cease; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt cease.

and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which has neither been plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley.

And he will appoint captains over thousands and captains over fifties and will set them to plough his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and the munitions of his chariots.

Thine oxen and thine asses that work the ground shall eat clean grain, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

General references

Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.

Perhaps for this, he departed from you for a season, that thou should have him again forever,