Genesis 41:29

'Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

In Context

28this [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.

30and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land,

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Cross References

Genesis 41:26the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;

Genesis 41:49and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number.

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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