Genesis 41:1
At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.
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2Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
Cross References
Genesis 29:14Laban [White] said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.
Genesis 37:5Joseph [May he add] dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
Exodus 1:22Pharaoh enjoined all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
Deuteronomy 11:10For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
Isaiah 19:5The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:1
Two things Providence is here bringing about:—I. The advancement of Joseph. II. The maintenance of Jacob and his family in a time of famine; for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the earth, and direct the affairs of the children of men for the benefit of those few whose hearts are upright with him. In order to these, we have here, 1. Pharaoh's dreams, ver. 1-8 . 2. The recommendation of Joseph to him for an interpreter, ver. 9-13 . 3. The interpretation of the dreams, and the prediction of seven years of… Read the whole commentary →