And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
`And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,
And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
