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.
For ... yet ... five years ... neither be caring nor harvest. Ear is an old English word, meaning to plow (cf. 1 Samuel 8:12; Isaiah 30:24). This seems to confirm the view given (Genesis 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.