John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 41:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when they had eaten them up, etc.] Or “were come into their bowels” f1710, into their inward parts, their bellies, being swallowed and devoured by them: it could not be known that they had eaten them: or were in their bellies, they seemed never the fuller nor the fatter for them: but they [were] still ill favoured as at the beginning; looked as thin and as meagre as they did when they first came out of the river, or were first seen by Pharaoh: so I awoke; surprised at what he had seen; this was his first dream.

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