29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
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And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. …
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-32)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 no rain, as appears, Zech. 14:18; but the plenty of the year depended upon the overflowing of the river, and it was about one certain time of the year that it overflowed. If it rose to fifteen or sixt…
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