6For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
6For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
3 And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: is my father yet living? His brethren could no answer him, being struck with exceeding great fear.
4 And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5 Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.
6 For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
7 And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
8 Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whold house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.
45:6For 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.
45:6For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping.
45:6For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
45:6For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.
45:6For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in the which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
45:6For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in which there shall neither be tillage nor harvest.
45:6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
45:6Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;
45:6For these two years has the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be ripening nor harvest.