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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 41:17 - 41:17
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Pharaoh said, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river - The dreams were purely Egyptian, founded on the productions of that country and the experience of a native. The fertility of Egypt being wholly dependent on the Nile, the scene is laid on the banks of that river; and oxen being in the ancient hieroglyphics symbolical of the earth and of food, animals of that species were introduced in the first dream.