Motif
doubled symbolic dream as confirmation of future events
doubled_symbolic_dream_as_confirmation_of_future_events
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
jewish christian
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Genesis Footnotes / Chapter 39 / Chapter 40 / Chapter 41; lines 2680-2774 confidence: high
Pharaoh dreams beside the river; seven sleek fat cattle come up from the river, followed by seven ugly thin cattle that eat the fat cattle.
The two dreams use parallel sets of seven cattle and seven grain heads, and Joseph states that the dream was doubled because the thing is established by God and will shortly happen.
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