Genesis 41:1 meaning and explanation

After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,

Genesis 41:1, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator marks time here: two full years have passed since Joseph asked the cupbearer to remember him in prison (Genesis 40:14). The scene shifts from a forgotten prisoner to Pharaoh himself, standing beside the Nile, which Egyptians regarded as the source of the land's life and fertility.

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