For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in the which there shall neither be plowing nor harvest.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Reaping, as in common years, though the places near the Nile might produce some little; (Menochius) and hence the Egyptians ask Joseph for seed, chap. xlvii. 19. (Calmet)