This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
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Gill's Exposition
And the plenty shall not be known in the land, by reason of that famine following,.... That is, before it would be over; otherwise the former plenty was in some measure known by the stores of…
- 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…