Genesis 45:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
In context
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
5 And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
6 For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
7 God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'Because 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- For 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For 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.