Genesis 41:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.

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  • Gen 41:2 : 2 seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
  • Gen 41:5 : 5 Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.
  • Gen 41:29 : 29 Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.
  • Gen 41:47 : 47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.
  • Gen 41:53 : 53 The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.
  • Exod 12:11 : 11 This is how you are to eat it– dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.
  • Exod 26:6 : 6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit.
  • 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
  • 1 John 5:7 : 7 For there are three that testify,
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
  • Gen 40:12 : 12 “This is its meaning,” Joseph said to him.“The three branches represent three days.
  • Gen 40:18 : 18 Joseph replied,“This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 41:17-25
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    17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,“In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

    18Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

    19Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!

    20The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.

    21When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

    22I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.

    23Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

    24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”

    25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,“Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

  • Gen 41:27-32
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    27The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent seven years of famine.

    28This is just what I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

    29Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.

    30But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.

    31The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

    32The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.

  • Gen 41:1-7
    7 verses
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    1Joseph’s Rise to Power At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,

    2seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

    3Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.

    4The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

    5Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

    6Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

    7The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.

  • Gen 37:6
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    6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:

  • Gen 41:36-37
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    36This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”

    37This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.

  • Gen 41:15
    73%

    15Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”

  • Gen 41:47
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    47During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.

  • Gen 41:11
    72%

    11We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

  • Gen 41:53-54
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    53The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

    54Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

  • Gen 45:6
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    6For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.