Genesis 42:5

42:5 So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 45:6

45:6 For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

tn Heb “in the midst of the coming ones.”

tn Heb “the famine [has been] in the midst of.”