Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.
Here, I. Pharaoh relates his dream. He dreamt that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones and the lean ones, come out of the river. For the kingdom of Egypt had no rain, as appears, Zac 14:18, but the plenty of the year depended upon the overflowing of the river, and it was about one...
Commenting on Genesis 41:17-32
And the lean and the ill favoured kine,.... The same as previously described; See Gill on Gen 41:4. . Genesis 41:21 gen 41:21 gen 41:21 gen 41:21And when they had eaten them up,.... Or "were come into their bowels" (k), 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...
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.