Holy Scripture
Genesis 41:29
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 29.) Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt. I wonder how the Hebrew word () Sabee, which we translated above as abundance or satiety, in reference to the well that the servants of Isaac dug, can now be translated most accurately as oath when we use the Seventy (Septuagint) t…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
29behold, for seven years there is coming great plenty in all the land of Egypt.
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In context
27And the seven thin kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven thin and blasted ears are seven years; there shall be seven years of famine.
28And as for the word which I have told Pharaoh, whatsoever God intends to do, he has shown to Pharaoh:
— Genesis 41:29 —
30But there shall come seven years of famine after these, and they shall forget the plenty that shall be in all Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land.
31And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine that shall be after this, for it shall be very grievous.