Genesis 41:3
Then 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.
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- Gen 41:4 : 4 The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
- Gen 41:20-21 : 20 The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows. 21 When 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.
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- Gen 41:17-3115 verses93%
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.
26The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.
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.
- Gen 41:1-22 verses93%
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.
- Gen 41:4-85 verses91%
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 41:36-372 verses70%
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.
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21When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!
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10“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:
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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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18Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”
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5“Then a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told,‘Get up and devour much flesh!’
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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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17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!
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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.”
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41When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.
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3then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
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7“After these things, as I was watching in the night visions a fourth beast appeared– one dreadful, terrible, and very strong. It had two large rows of iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and anything that was left it trampled with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that came before it, and it had ten horns.
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19They said to one another,“Here comes this master of dreams!
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18until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.
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25The Second Blow: Frogs Seven full days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.
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33“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.
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3Then four large beasts came up from the sea; they were different from one another.