Genesis 41:1 - The Message1-4 Two years passed and Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile River. Seven cows came up out of the Nile, all shimmering with health, and grazed on the marsh grass. Then seven other cows, all skin and bones, came up out of the river after them and stood by them on the bank of the Nile. The skinny cows ate the seven healthy cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 17691 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition1 AFTER TWO full years, Pharaoh dreamed that he stood by the river [Nile]. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible1 Two years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing near the Nile. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version1 After two years, Pharaoh saw a dream. He thought himself to be standing above a river, Ver Capítulo |
The River Nile will dry up, the riverbed baked dry in the sun. The canals will become stagnant and stink, every stream touching the Nile dry up. River vegetation will rot away the banks of the Nile-baked clay, The riverbed hard and smooth, river grasses dried up and gone with the wind. Fishermen will complain that the fishing’s been ruined. Textile workers will be out of work, all weavers and workers in linen and cotton and wool Dispirited, depressed in their forced idleness— everyone who works for a living, jobless.
That night the king couldn’t sleep. He ordered the record book, the day-by-day journal of events, to be brought and read to him. They came across the story there about the time that Mordecai had exposed the plot of Bigthana and Teresh—the two royal eunuchs who guarded the entrance and who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
The land you are entering to take up ownership isn’t like Egypt, the land you left, where you had to plant your own seed and water it yourselves as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are about to cross the river and take for your own is a land of mountains and valleys; it drinks water that rains from the sky. It’s a land that God, your God, personally tends—he’s the gardener—he alone keeps his eye on it all year long.