And when they had eaten them up,.... Or "were come into their bowels" , 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 their bellies, they seemed never the fuller nor the fatter for them:but they [were] still ill favoured as at the beginning; looked as thin and as meagre as they did when they first came out of the river, or were first seen by Pharaoh:so I awoke; surprised at what he had seen; this was his first dream.
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Genesis 41:21
Genesis 41:21
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