Translation:
"Then will come after that (period) a year in which the people will have abundant water, and in which they will press (wine and oil)." 1706
"Then will come after that (period) a year in which the people will have abundant water, and in which they will press (wine and oil)." 1706
Translation:
And after that there will come a year in which the people will be delivered from all distress, 48 and in which they will press [oil and wine as before]."
And after that there will come a year in which the people will be delivered from all distress, 48 and in which they will press [oil and wine as before]."
Commentary:
48 Or: "will be granted rain"-depending on whether one connects the verbal form yughath with either of the infinitive nouns ghayth ("rain") or ghawth ("deliverance from distress"). Although the crops of Egypt depend entirely on the annual Nile floods, the water-level of the river is, in its turn, contingent upon the quantity of rainfall at its upper reaches.
48 Or: "will be granted rain"-depending on whether one connects the verbal form yughath with either of the infinitive nouns ghayth ("rain") or ghawth ("deliverance from distress"). Although the crops of Egypt depend entirely on the annual Nile floods, the water-level of the river is, in its turn, contingent upon the quantity of rainfall at its upper reaches.
1706 This is a symbol of a very abundant year, following the seven years of drought The Nile must have brought abundant fertilising waters and silt from its upper reaches, and there was probably some rain also in Lower Egypt . The vine and the olive trees, which must have suffered in the drought, now revived, and yielded their juice and their oil; among the annuals, also, the oil seeds, such as linseed, sesame, and the castor oil plant, must have been grown, as there was irrigated land to spare from the abundant grain crops. And the people's spirits revived, to enjoy the finer products of the earth, when their absolute necessities had been more than met in their grain crops.