Genesis 41:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

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  • Gen 41:18-19
    2 verses
    93%

    18And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

    19Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

  • Gen 41:1-8
    8 verses
    92%

    1Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;

    2And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

    3And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

    4And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.

    5But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

    6And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

    7And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

    8And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

  • Gen 41:26-31
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    26The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

    27The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

    28As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.

    29Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

    30And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

    31And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

  • Gen 41:21-24
    4 verses
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    21And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

    22And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

    23And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

    24And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

  • Gen 41:35-36
    2 verses
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    35And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

    36And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

  • 20For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.

  • 54Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

  • Gen 31:9-10
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    9So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

    10And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.

  • 11Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

  • 42But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

  • 24And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

  • 15And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king's table.

  • 7After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.

  • 5And I saw another beast, like a bear, and it was lifted up on one side, and three side-bones were in its mouth, between its teeth: and they said to it, Up! take much flesh.

  • 17Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

  • 20Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.

  • 1And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

  • 33And seventy-two thousand oxen,

  • 44And thirty-six thousand oxen,

  • 6And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

  • 20Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.