Post by Malcolm on Jul 30, 2013 23:51:31 GMT -5
41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favored kine and fat fleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The funny thing is that the Pharaoh would have known the meaning of his dream much better than Joseph, had Joseph really been a new comer to Egypt.
The story of the Seven Cows and the One Bull was so well known in Egypt that even the smallest infant would have known what it meant. The Seven Fat Cows were seen as the Seven Good Years of Nile flooding which were inevitably followed by seven years of drought.
It was everywhere, in the Book of Coming Forth By Day, painted on tomb walls.
The Biblical Scribe could only have got away with this story if it was written a thousand years later and in another country where it may have been mostly forgotten.
41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favored kine and fat fleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
The funny thing is that the Pharaoh would have known the meaning of his dream much better than Joseph, had Joseph really been a new comer to Egypt.
The story of the Seven Cows and the One Bull was so well known in Egypt that even the smallest infant would have known what it meant. The Seven Fat Cows were seen as the Seven Good Years of Nile flooding which were inevitably followed by seven years of drought.
It was everywhere, in the Book of Coming Forth By Day, painted on tomb walls.
The Biblical Scribe could only have got away with this story if it was written a thousand years later and in another country where it may have been mostly forgotten.
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