Quotes about Symbolism
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
- Genesis 8:11
So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.
- Genesis 15:10
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
- Genesis 15:17
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
- Genesis 40:12
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.
- Genesis 41:3
And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,
- Genesis 41:4
And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:7
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
- Genesis 41:20
And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”
- Genesis 41:24
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
- Genesis 41:26
You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
- Exodus 12:20
Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.
- Exodus 13:7