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Genesis 41
²⁰ and the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
²¹ Yet when they had devoured them, it could not be detected that they had devoured them, for they were just as ugly as before. Then I awoke.
²² I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk;
²³ and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;
²⁴ and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
²⁵ Now Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same; God has told to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
²⁶ The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one and the same.
²⁷ The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.
²⁸ It is as I have spoken to Pharaoh: God has shown to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
²⁹ Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt;
³⁰ and after them seven years of famine will come, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will ravage the land.