And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
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Gill's Exposition
And I saw in my dream,.... Falling asleep again quickly, he dreamed a second time; and this dream being of a like kind with the former, and so small a space between them, they are represented as one,…
- Joseph Was Exalted 1. יאר ye'or, “river, canal,” mostly applied to the Nile. Some suppose the word to be Coptic. 2. אחוּ 'āchû, “sedge, reed-grass, marsh-grass.” This word is probably Coptic. 8.…
Here, I. Pharaoh relates his dream. He dreamt that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones and the lean ones, come out of the river. For the kingdom of Egypt had…
Joseph as Interpreter
8. his spirit was troubled Compare the effect of the dreams in Gen 40:6; Dan 2:1-3.
all the magicians or, as R.V. marg., sacred scribes. The Heb. ḥartummimused in this chapter…