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What Is Sheaf in the Bible?

Object

A big bundle of cut stalks of grain, tied together. Joseph dreamed that his brothers’ sheaves bowed down to his.

Where it appears in the Bible

Genesis 37:7

What the Bible says

Genesis 37:7

I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: Dictionary.com, “sheaf”

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