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Genesis 45:6 "For the famine [has been] in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

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      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 1Sa 8:12; Isa 30:24). This seems to confirm the view given (Ge 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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Brief Summary: Joseph makes himself known to his brethren, all the brothers rejoice together, Pharaoh invites Jacob and his family to dwell in Egypt, and to eat the fat of the land.

Outline
1 Joseph makes himself known to his brethren
5 Joseph comforts them in God's providence
9 Joseph sends for his father
16 Pharaoh confirms it
21 Joseph furnishes them for their journey, and exhorts them to concord
25 Jacob is revived with the news

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wept upon his neck
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the fat of the land
she asses laden
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