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.

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

Earing

Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

"Six days you shall work, 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 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.

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

General references

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,