Genesis 41

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:14

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph ,.... Sent messengers to him to come to him directly, ordered the captain of the guard, or keeper of prison, to loose him, and let him free, see Psalm 105:20 , and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon ; that is, out of the prison house; which, as Jarchi says, was made like a ditch or dungeon, or in which the dungeon was where Joseph was first put when he was brought to prison; though it cannot be thought that he continued there when he had so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:15

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,...., Immediately, upon his being introduced to him: I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it ; that he could yet meet with; none of his magicians or wise men, who made great pretensions to skill in such matters: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it ; it had been reported to him, particularly by the chief butler, that when he heard a dream told him, he had such knowledge and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:16

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, it is not in me ,.... Which expresses his great modesty, that he did not arrogate such skill and wisdom to himself; declaring that he had no such power and abilities in and of himself, to interpret dreams; what he had was a gift of God, and wholly depended upon his influence, and the revelation he was pleased to make to him of such things: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace ; such an answer to his request in the interpretation of his dream,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:17

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,.... Relating both his dreams in a more ample manner, though to the same purpose, than before related: in my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river ; the river Nile, where he could have a full sight of what were after presented to his view. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:18

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine ,.... Cows or heifers; see Gill on Genesis 41:2 ; the account of them is the same here as there, and of the place where they fed, only the words are transposed. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:19

And, behold, seven other kine ,.... Here some addition is made: these are said not only to be very ill favoured, and leanfleshed ; see Gill on Genesis 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... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:20

And the lean and the ill favoured kine ,.... The same as previously described; See Gill on Genesis 41:4 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:21

And when they had eaten them up ,.... Or "were come into their bowels" F11 ותבאנה אל קרבנה "et venerunt ad interiora earum", Pagninus, Montanus; "in ventrem istarum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Tigurine version. , 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... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:22

And I saw in my dream ,.... Falling asleep again quickly, he dreamed a second time; and this dream being of a like kind with the former, and so small a space between them, they are represented as one, and this is the continuation of it: and, behold, seven ears , &c.; See Gill on Genesis 41:5 . read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 41:23

And, behold, seven ears withered ,.... Here a new epithet of the bad ears is given, and expressed by a word nowhere else used, which Ben Melech interprets, small, little, according to the use of the word in the Misnah; Aben Ezra, void, empty, such as had no grains of corn in them, nothing but husk or chaff, and observes that some render it images; for the word is so used in the Arabic language, and may signify that these ears were only mere shadows or images of ears, which had no substance... read more

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