Genesis 45:6

For these two years hath the famine been, in the land,.... In the land of Egypt and in the countries round about:

and yet there are five years; still remaining, which he knew by the above dreams and…

- Joseph Made Himself Known to His Brethren 10. גשׁן gôshen, Goshen, Gesem (Arabias related perhaps to גשׁם geshem “rain, shower”), a region on the borders of Egypt and Arabia, near the gulf of Suez.…

There shall neither be earing nor harvest - Earing has been supposed to mean collecting the ears of corn, which would confound it with harvest: the word, however, means ploughing or seed-time, from…

Judah and his brethren were waiting for an answer, and could not but be amazed to discover, instead of the gravity of a judge, the natural affection of a father or brother.

I. Joseph ordered all his…

yet five years Cf. Gen 41:30.

neither plowing nor harvest A general phrase for agricultural operations, as in Exo 34:21; Deu 21:4; 1Sa 8:12. There was not even corn enough for sowing purposes. The…