18. there came up out of the riverseven kine--Cows now, of the
buffalo kind, are seen daily plunging into the Nile; when their huge
form is gradually emerging, they seem as if rising "out of the river."
and they fed in a meadow--Nile grass, the aquatic plants that
grow on the marshy banks of that river, particularly the lotus kind, on
which cattle were usually fattened.
JFB.
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