Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 45:6

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 45:6 - 45:6

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 45:6 - 45:6

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45:1 - 45:1
45:2 - 45:2
45:3 - 45:3
45:6 - 45:6
45:14 - 45:14
45:17 - 45:17
45:21 - 45:21
45:22 - 45:22
45:23 - 45:23
45:24 - 45:24

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 (Gen 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.