OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 45:6

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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.

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Verse 6. Reaping, as in common years, thought he places near the Nile might produce some little; ( Menochius.) and hence the Egyptians ask Joseph for seed. Calmet. 47:19. Calmet.

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