and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;
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and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;
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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass.
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Passages linked to Genesis 41:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 24:1-3 Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten.”
- Jeremiah 24:5 “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
- Jeremiah 24:8 “ ‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 41:18 And, behold, there came up out of…
Gen 41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
Ver. 18. {See Trapp on "Gen 41:2"} {See Trapp on "Gen 41:3"} {See Trapp on "Gen 41:4"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And, behold, there came up out of the river…
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,.... Cows or heifers; see Gill on Gen 41:2; the account of them is the same here as there, and of the place where they fed, only the words are transposed.
; the account of them is the same here as there, and of the place where they fed, only the words are transposed.
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gen 41:19And, behold, seven other kine,.... Here some addition is made: these are said not only to be
very ill favoured, and leanfleshed; see Gill on Gen 41:3, but
poor, thin, meagre, exhausted of their flesh and strength through some disease upon them, or want of food: and it follows, what was not before expressed:
such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt, for badness; so poor, so lean, and so ill favoured; for whatever might be seen in other countries, never were such seen in Egypt, which was famous for good cattle.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. Seven kine, fat-fleshed] See Clarke on Ge…
Verse 18. Seven kine, fat-fleshed] See Clarke on Ge 41:2. And observe farther, that the seven fat and the seven lean kine coming out of the same river plainly show, at once, the cause both of the plenty and the dearth. It is well known that there is scarcely any rain in Egypt; and that the country depends for its fertility on the overflowing of the Nile; and that the fertility is in proportion to the duration and quantity of the overflow. We may therefore safely conclude that the seven years of plenty were owing to an extraordinary overflowing of the Nile; and that the seven years of dearth were occasioned by a very partial, or total want of this essentially necessary inundation. Thus then the two sorts of cattle, signifying years of plenty and want, might be said to come out of the same river, as the inundation was either complete, partial, or wholly restrained. See Clarke on Ge 41:31.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain there came up out of the river seven kine--Cows…
there came up out of the river seven kine--Cows now, of the buffalo kind, are seen daily plunging into the Nile; when their huge form is gradually emerging, they seem as if rising "out of the river."
and they fed in a meadow--Nile grass, the aquatic plants that grow on the marshy banks of that river, particularly the lotus kind, on which cattle were usually fattened.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) In a meadow.—Heb., in the marsh-grass, as in…
(18) In a meadow.—Heb., in the marsh-grass, as in Gen_41:2.
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