If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!"

Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.

The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent seven years of famine.