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Show Immense Cattle Herds of Children of Israel King Pharaoh's dream of seven fat and seven lean kine coming np-out np-out of the water (Genesis 41) is Illustrated Il-lustrated before the eyes of travelers travel-ers on the Nile at this very time. In the land of Goshen and all along the river where it has left its rocky gorge in Upper Egypt and runs-through runs-through a pastoral country with low banks, the cattle of the country wade out into the sluggish stream to avoid the fly pests and the excessive heat remaining there with their heads only showing, until approaching night Joseph, and afterwards the other children of Israel, when they came down into Egypt were well acquaint ed with cattle and the care of them. Although not so commonly used at that date in Canaan as in the land of the Pharaohs, the Patriarchs all had cattle, and we remember that when Jacob sent a present to propitiate pro-pitiate his brother Esau, he Included in it forty khie and ten bulls, and we were told previously to this that the land could not contain and nourish nour-ish the entile of both Lot and Abraham. Abra-ham. Job owned five hundred yoke of oxen and must therefore have hact many hundreds of cows. The plowing in those days was done with oxen, and what a pair of oxen could plow in a day was callec! -. yoke, or in our language an acre Today, in the East milch cattle are as likely to be employed under the yoke as bulls or oxen. |