Genesis 41:27
The 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.
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- 2 Kgs 8:1 : 1 Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life,“You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the LORD has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”
- 2 Sam 24:19 : 19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the LORD’s instructions.
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- Gen 41:18-269 verses89%
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.
26The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.
- Gen 41:1-88 verses87%
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.
8In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
- Gen 41:28-314 verses82%
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.
- Gen 41:34-363 verses78%
34Pharaoh should do this– he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
35They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.
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.”
- Gen 41:53-542 verses75%
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.
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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.
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47During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.
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11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
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11I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor– you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’
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6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:
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1The Second Journey to Egypt Now the famine was severe in the land.
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18When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him,“We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.
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57People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.
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13But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.