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Genesis 41:26

The seven good heifers, are, seven years, and, the seven good ears are, seven years,—the dream, is, one.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

In Context

25Then said Joseph unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh, is, one. What God is about to do hath he announced to Pharaoh.

27And the seven lean and uncomely heifers that were coming up after them, are seven years, and the seven lean ears, shrivelled by an east wind, will turn out to be—seven years of famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12And Joseph said to him, This, is the interpretation thereof,—The three shoots are three days:

Genesis 41:2and lo! from the river, were coming up seven heifers, comely in appearance and fat in flesh,—and they fed among the rushes.

Genesis 41:29Lo! seven years, coming in,—of great plenty, in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53Then came to an end the seven years of the plenty,—which was in the land of Egypt;

Exodus 26:6And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold,—so shalt thou join the curtains one to another, with the clasps, and thus shall the habitation be one.

1 Corinthians 10:4And, all, drank, the same spiritual drink,—for they continued to drink of the spiritual rock that followed them, and, the rock, was the Christ:—

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:18-33

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream. ( b. c. 1715.) 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 21 And when they had eaten… Read the whole commentary →

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