OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 41:5

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He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

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Verse 5. Another dream of the same import, (verse 25,) to convince Pharao that the event would certainly take place, verse 32. Thus Daniel had a double vision, 7:2. 3.—One stalk. It was of the species which Pliny (xviii. 10,) calls ramosum, branchy. What would strike Pharao the most was, that the last ears should devour the former ones. Calmet.

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