OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 37:7

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for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

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Verse 7. Sheaf. Joseph probably knew not what this portended, as the prophets were sometimes ignorant of the real purport of their visions. Calmet.—But it admirably foreshewed the famine, which would bring his brethren to adore him in Egypt. Menochius.

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