Genesis 41:2

And lo, there came up as it were out of the river seven cows, fair in appearance, and choice of flesh, and they fed on the sedge. + 41:2 The Hebrew word which the LXX. have here written in Greek characters without translating it, is rendered in the place A. V. by meadow, in Job 8. 11, the only other passage where it occurs, by flag.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

In Context

1And it came to pass after two + 41:1 Gr. years of days.full years that Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood upon the bank of the river.

3And other seven cows came up after these out of the river, ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, and fed by the other cows on the bank of the river.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:2-9

Pharaoh's Portentous Dream. ( b. c. 1715.) 1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So… Read the whole commentary →

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