Genesis 41:27
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.
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- 2 Kgs 8:1 : 1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.
- 2 Sam 24:19 : 19 So David went up, as Gad had said and as the Lord had given orders.
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- Gen 41:18-269 verses89%
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;
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.
25Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.
- Gen 41:1-88 verses87%
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 41:28-314 verses82%
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 41:34-363 verses78%
34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.
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.
- Gen 41:53-542 verses75%
53And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.
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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6For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.
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47Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.
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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.
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11And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.
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6And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.
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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.
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18And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;
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57And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.
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13Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.