²³ Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

²⁷ The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

⁴⁵ "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

²⁴ Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?

²⁵ When he has leveled the surface of it, doesn't he cast abroad the dill, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?

⁶ In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening don't withhold your hand; For you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, Or whether they both will be equally good.

²³ An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, But injustice sweeps it away.

¹¹ He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

²⁶ People curse someone who withholds grain, But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

⁵ It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

³⁶ There he makes the hungry live, That they may prepare a city to live in,

³⁷ Sow fields, plant vineyards, And reap the fruits of increase.

¹ > Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

⁶ For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

¹⁰ Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;