Show I 1 immense M mense cattle herds of children of israel lang king dream of seven fat and seven lean alne coming up out of the water genesis Gen esla 41 Is illustrated lust rated before the eyes of travelers on the nile at this very time in the laud land of goshen and all along the river where it has left its rocky gorge la in upper egypt and runs through a pastoral country with low banks the cattle of the country wade out into the sluggish stream to avoid the fly pests pesta 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 acquainted cc with cattle col tie and the care 0 of t them em although not so commonly used at that date in canaan ns as in the land of the pharaohs Phara Phar aolis the patriarchs al nil had cattle and we remember that when jacob sent a present to propitiate his brother esau he included in it forty kine and ten bulls and we were told previously to this that the land could not contain and nourish the cuttle cattle of both lot and abraham job owned five hundred yoke of oxen and must therefore have had bad 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 called T yoke or in our language an acre today in the east cattle are as likely to be employed under the yoke as bulls or oxen |