Genesis 45:6 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 45:6

4 And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, ^awhom you sold into Egypt.

5 But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; ^afor God sent me before you to preserve life.

6 For these two years the ^afamine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

7 And God ^asent me before you to preserve a¹ posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but ^aGod; and He has made me ^ba father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ^cruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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Genesis 45:6

and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest—"Ear" is an old English word, meaning "to plough" (compare I Samuel 8:12; Isaiah 30:24). This seems to confirm the view given (Genesis 41:57) that the famine was caused by an extraordinary drought, which prevented the annual overflowing of the Nile; and of course made the land unfit to receive the seed of Egypt.

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