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Death of Abraham. The whole span of Abraham’s life was one hundred and seventy-five years.
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The span of Ishmael’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years. After he had breathed his last and died, he was gathered to his people.
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Because Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her.
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Finish the bridal week for this one, and then the other will also be given to you in return for another seven years of service with me.”
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Jacob then consummated his marriage with Rachel also, and he loved her more than Leah. Thus he served Laban another seven years. Jacob’s Children.
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Taking his kinsmen with him, he pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
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He himself went on ahead of them, bowing to the ground seven times, until he reached his brother.
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This is the story of the family of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flocks with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and Joseph brought their father bad reports about them.
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when up out of the Nile came seven cows, fine-looking and fat; they grazed in the reed grass.
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Behind them seven other cows, poor-looking and gaunt, came up out of the Nile; and standing on the bank of the Nile beside the others,
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the poor-looking, gaunt cows devoured the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
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He fell asleep again and had another dream. He saw seven ears of grain, fat and healthy, growing on a single stalk.
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Behind them sprouted seven ears of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind;
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and the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat, healthy ears. Then Pharaoh woke up—it was a dream!
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when up from the Nile came seven cows, fat and well-formed; they grazed in the reed grass.
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Behind them came seven other cows, scrawny, most ill-formed and gaunt. Never have I seen such bad specimens as these in all the land of Egypt!
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The gaunt, bad cows devoured the first seven fat cows.
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In another dream I saw seven ears of grain, full and healthy, growing on a single stalk.
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Behind them sprouted seven ears of grain, shriveled and thin and scorched by the east wind;
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and the seven thin ears swallowed up the seven healthy ears. I have spoken to the magicians, but there is no one to explain it to me.”
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The seven healthy cows are seven years, and the seven healthy ears are seven years—the same in each dream.
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The seven thin, bad cows that came up after them are seven years, as are the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind; they are seven years of famine.
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Seven years of great abundance are now coming throughout the land of Egypt;
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but seven years of famine will rise up after them, when all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. When the famine has exhausted the land,