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

¹² He will ^(A)appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

⁴ The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

^21 (A)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

²³ Then Joseph said to the people, “Indeed I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Look, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

¹⁸ When that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is gone; my lord also has our herds of livestock. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.

⁵⁶ The famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened ^[a]all the storehouses and ^(A)sold to the Egyptians. And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.

^54 (A)and the seven years of famine began to come, ^(B)as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

²⁹ Indeed ^(A)seven years of great plenty will come throughout all the land of Egypt; ³⁰ but after them seven years of famine will ^(B)arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine ^(C)will deplete the land. ³¹ So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe.