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Genesis 41:28-30
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28 This is just what I told[a] Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. 29 Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt. 30 But seven years of famine will occur[b] after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate[c] the land.

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  1. Genesis 41:28 tn Heb “it is the word that I spoke.”
  2. Genesis 41:30 tn The perfect with the vav consecutive continues the time frame of the preceding participle, which has an imminent future nuance here.
  3. Genesis 41:30 tn The Hebrew verb כָּלָה (kalah) in the Piel stem means “to finish, to destroy, to bring an end to.” The severity of the famine will ruin the land of Egypt.
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