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.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor 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.
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
`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;
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.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)