Genesis 41:19

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and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

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Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

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Egypt is the land where Pharaoh’s dream of seven gaunt cows rising from the Nile signals a coming famine; the Nile was Egypt’s vital river and source of agricultural prosperity. Heliopolis, likely the royal setting later associated with Joseph’s family through Potiphera, was an important Egyptian religious and administrative center.

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Genesis 41:19 mentions Egypt, Heliopolis and Nile.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

Photo of Heliopolis — Heliopolis · Neithsabes