yet five years Cf. Genesis 41:30.

neither plowing nor harvest A general phrase for agricultural operations, as in Exodus 34:21; Deuteronomy 21:4; 1 Samuel 8:12. There was not even corn enough for sowing purposes. The drought made the ground too hard for ploughing. A.V. has the Old English "earing" = "plowing." Cf. A.V. Exodus 34:21, "in earing time and in harvest." "Let them go to ear the land," Shakespeare, Rich. II, iii. 2.

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