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Gen 45:6 (KJV) — For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

Gen 45:6 (NASB) — "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.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

two years	Gen 41:29-31,54,56; Gen 47:18
earing	Earing means ploughing or seed-time from the Anglo-Saxon erian, probably from aro, to plough; and agrees with [arotron ( aµrotron )] Greek, charatha, Arabic, and charash, Hebrew. Gen 47:23; Exd 34:21; Deu 21:4; 1Sa 8:12; Isa 30:24