“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 two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. The specific timeline — two years past, five years ahead — is Joseph's communication of the urgency and the scope of the mission he has been positioned to fulfill. The application: the covenant person positioned by God's providence understands the mission in terms of the need it addresses. Joseph knows the timeline; he knows what the next five years require.
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