6For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping.
6For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping.
3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still living?" But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." When they had done so, he said, "I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!
5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.
6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping.
7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 "So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all 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 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.
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.