New Revised Standard Version
For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

Contemporary English Version
There has already been a famine for two years, and for five more years no one will plow fields or harvest grain.

New American Bible
The famine has been in the land for two years now, and for five more years cultivation will yield no harvest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.

For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.

two years.

Genesis 41:29-31,54,56 Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt: . . .

Genesis 47:18 And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands.

earing.

Genesis 47:23 Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and your lands belong to Pharao; take seed and sow the fields,

Exodus 34:21 Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.

Deuteronomy 21:4 And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head of the heifer:

1 Samuel 8:12 And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.

Isaiah 30:24 And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.