Littérature du Second Temple sur La Genèse 41:17

[218] And after I had waked I slept, and saw again in my sleep that seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, full and good, and other seven ears thin and wind-blasted grew up beside them, and the seven ears swallowed up the good and full ears” (Gen. 41:17–24).

[238] For “I thought,” he says, “that I stood on the edge of the river” (Gen. 41:17). River, I submit, is here a symbol of speech, since both flow outward and with a swift strong current, and both are sometimes fruitful in producing inundations, water in one case, words in the other, sometimes unfruitful when they slacken or subside.