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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Genesis 41:19

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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behold, seven other kine . . . poor and ill-favoured--The cow being the emblem of fruitfulness, the different years of plenty and of famine were aptly represented by the different condition of those kine--the plenty, by the cattle feeding on the richest fodder; and the dearth, by the lean and famishing kine, which the pangs of hunger drove to act contrary to their nature.
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