Genesis 45:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

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  • Exod 34:21 : 21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.
  • Deut 21:4 : 4 And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:
  • 1 Sam 8:12 : 12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
  • Gen 41:29-31 : 29 Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt; 30 And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years; 31 And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.
  • Gen 41:54 : 54 Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.
  • Gen 41:56 : 56 And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 47:18 : 18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;
  • Gen 47:23 : 23 Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

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    10 The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:

    11 And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

  • Gen 41:35-36
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    35 And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

    36 And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

  • Gen 41:29-31
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    29 Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

    30 And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

    31 And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

  • Gen 45:7-8
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    7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

    8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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    5 Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.

  • Gen 41:53-57
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    53 And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

    54 Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

    55 And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.

    56 And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

    57 And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

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    1 And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

    2 And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

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    5 And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 41:26-27
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    26 The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

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    2 And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

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    13 Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

  • Lev 25:20-21
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    20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

    21 Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

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    18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

    19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

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    47 Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

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    11 Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

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    17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price: