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

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

⁵⁶ So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses^[a] and ^(A)sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

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

²⁹ There will come ^(A)seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, ³⁰ but after them there will arise ^(B)seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. ^(C)The famine will consume the land, ³¹ and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.

²⁴ and ^(A)the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

¹² And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some ^(A)to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

⁴ And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and 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.

¹⁸ And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.