^45:11I will provide you with food¹⁴ there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor—you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.” ’

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Footnotes

14 The verb כּוּל (kul) in the Pilpel stem means “to nourish, to support, to sustain.” As in 1 Kgs 20:27, it here means “to supply with food.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.” ’

NLTNew Living Translation

I will take care of you there, for there are still five years of famine ahead of us. Otherwise you, your household, and all your animals will starve.’ ”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And I will provide for you there, because there are still five years of famine—lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.’

KJV 1900King James Version

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

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