Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 47:18

18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year , and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent, my lord also had our herds of cattle: there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

Not the second from the beginning of the Famine, but from their great extremity, the second year after that last mentioned, wherein they had sold their Cattle; but this seems to have been the last year of the Famine, because he now gives them Corn for food and for seed too, ver. 23. whereas in the six first years there was no sowing nor reaping, Gen. 45. 6.