“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 45 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.