Genesis 41:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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.

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  • Gen 41:8 : 8 And 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.
  • Dan 4:7 : 7 Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.
  • Exod 8:19 : 19 Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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  • Gen 41:1-8
    8 verses
    87%

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

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

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

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

    5 But 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.

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

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

    8 And 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 41:17-23
    7 verses
    84%

    17 Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 41:25-31
    7 verses
    81%

    25 Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

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

    27 The 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.

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

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

    30 And 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;

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

  • 15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

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

  • 8 Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

  • 7 Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.

  • 47 Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

  • 36 And 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.

  • Gen 41:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

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

    12 And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

  • 54 Then 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.

  • 16 Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;