Genesis 45:6 Cross References - BBE

⁶ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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;

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.