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

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said, We will not hide it from my lord, that our silver has failed, also our herds of cattle, going to my lord. Nothing is left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands.

Earing

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

You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the stream.

And he will appoint commanders over thousands, and commanders over fifties, and some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and weapons for his chariots.

Also the oxen and the young asses that plow the ground shall eat clean fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

General references

But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and a great affliction. And our fathers found no food.

For perhaps because of this he was separated from you for an hour, that you should receive him eternally,