Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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there was scarcity. See how many ways
Providence has of dispensing its gifts; yet,
whatever the second causes are, our
dependence is still the same upon the first
Cause, who makes every creature that to us that
it is, be it rain or river.
18 and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed
and well-favored; and they fed in a meadow:
19 and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very
ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
20 and the lean and the ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat
kine:
21 and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they
had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one
stalk, full and good:
23 and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east
wind, sprung up after them:
24 and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto
the magicians; but there was none t hat could declare it to me.
25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God
hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are
seven years: the dream is one.
27 And the seven thin and ill-favored kine that came up after them are
seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is
about to do he showeth unto Pharaoh.
29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the
land of Egypt:
Joseph interprets his dream, and tells him that
it signified seven years of plenty now