Genesis 45:6

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5And 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.6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting. 7God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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Berean Standard Bible
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
Free Bible Version
The country has suffered from famine for two years already, but there will be five more years with no plowing or reaping.
Geneva Bible 1599
For nowe two yeeres of famine haue bene through ye land, and fiue yeeres are behind, wherein neither shalbe earing nor haruest.
King James (Authorized) 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.
One Unity Resource 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.
Translation for Translators
There has been a famine in this country for two years, and it will continue for five more years, so that no one will plow ground, and there will be no crops to harvest.
Unlocked Literal Bible
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
Noah 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.
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.
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;