Neither sowing nor reaping, except in a few places near Nilus, because the people could not spare seed-corn, and would not lose it; understanding from Joseph that their cost and labour would be lost, and that the famine would be of long continuance.
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Genesis 45:6
6 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.