Cross references

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Genesis 45:6 BSB

Genesis 45:6 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 47:23 (4 votes) and Genesis 41:29–31 (3 votes). 13 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 8 to Philemon 1.

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Which verses does Genesis 45:6 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

  2. Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land. …

  3. the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.

  4. When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

  5. When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

  6. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

  7. bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

  8. He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

  9. The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Which verses point to Genesis 45:6?

The 10 strongest of 13.