Genesis 41:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

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  • Ps 37:19 : 19 They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.
  • Isa 9:20 : 20 On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.
  • Ezek 3:3 : 3 And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
  • Rev 10:9-9 : 9 And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey. 10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and did as he said; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth: and when I had taken it, my stomach was made bitter.

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  • Gen 41:18-20
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    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;

    20And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

  • Gen 41:1-8
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    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 41:22-24
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    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 41:26-27
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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.

  • Gen 41:30-31
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    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.

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

    7We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

  • 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.

  • 26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • 20As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

  • 30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

  • 19Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

  • 17And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head.

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    5And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

    6And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad.

  • 11And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

  • 35And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.

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  • 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.

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