Genesis 45:6 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There shall neither be earing nor harvest - Earing has been supposed to mean collecting the ears of corn, which would confound it with harvest: the word, however, means ploughing or seed-time, from the Anglo-Saxon erian, probably borrowed from the Latin aro, to plough, and plainly means that there should be no seed-time, and consequently no harvest; and why? Because there should be a total want of rain in other countries, and the Nile should not rise above twelve cubits in Egypt; See Clarke on Gen 41:31 (note).

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God's Israel is the particular care of God's providence. Joseph reckoned that his advancement was not so much designed to save a whole kingdom of Egyptians as to preserve a small family of Israelites: for the Lord's portion is his people; whatever becomes of others, they shall be secured.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
זֶ֛ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
שְׁנָתַ֥יִם	she.na.Ta.yim	two years	H8141 →
הָרָעָ֖ב	ha.ra.'Av	the famine	H7458 →
בְּקֶ֣רֶב	be.Ke.rev	[has been] in [the] midst of	H7130 →
הָאָ֑רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
וְעוֹד֙	ve.'Od	and still	H5750 →
חָמֵ֣שׁ	cha.Mesh	five	H2568 →
שָׁנִ֔ים	sha.Nim	years	H8141 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	when	H834 →
אֵין־	'ein-	there not	H369 →
חָרִ֖ישׁ	cha.Rish	[will be] plowing	H2758 →
וְקָצִּֽיר׃	ve.ka.Tzir	and harvest	H7105 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 41:54
the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
leads to
- Acts 7:11
  Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
- Genesis 45:11
  And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
- Psalms 105:16
  He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
- Genesis 41:30
  but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
Through
Exodus 34:21
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
leads to
- Exodus 23:12
  For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be…
- Deuteronomy 21:4
  bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
- Luke 13:14
  But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on…
- Exodus 35:2
  For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put…

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06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Genesis