Identifier: biblepanoramaorh00fost (find matches)
Title: The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Foster, William A. (from old catalog)
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t up the seven good ones; and his dream about theears of corn also. Then Joseph said that the kings two dreams both meant the same thing,and that God had showed Pharaoh in these dreams what he was going to do.The seven good cows and the seven good ears of corn, he said, meant sevenyears; and the seven bad cows and the seven bad ears of corn, meant sevenother years. For first there would come seven good years in Egypt, when thecorn would grow well, and there would be plenty for the people to eat. Butafter those seven good years would come seven bad years, when the peoplewould want bread, because there would be a famine in all the land. Pharaoh believed what Joseph told him and said that every man in Egypt should do as Joseph commanded. Then Joseph went out over all the land and attended to saving up the corn for Pharaoh. During the seven good years, in which it grew well, he put a part of it away in storehouses, that it might be kept safe until the seven years of famine should come. 52
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JOSEPH STANDS BEFORE PHARAOH AND INTERPRETS TTTE KINGS DREAM. QENBSIS XI.I. 10. 53 Joseph Meets His Brothers Agaik YEARS passed away and JosejDh still lived in the land of Egypt. KingPharaoh made him a great man. Seven years of famine came, as Josephsaid they would, and Josephs brothers had to go to Egypt to buy corn,because there was no corn in the land of Canaan where they lived. The faminewas in the land of Canaan, and the corn would not grow there. But there wasplenty of corn saved up in the land of Egypt where Josex^h lived. So Josephs brothers took their asses and started to go to Egypt to buycorn. And they saw Joseph in Egypt and bought some of him, but it had beenso long since they had seen him, and now he was so rich and great, that theydid not know him or think it was their brother. But Joseph knew them,though he did not tell them so. And when they paid their money for the cornhe told his servants to put it back in their bags. And when Josephs brothersstopped and opened thei

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