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Genesis 41
¹⁸ and I saw seven fat, healthy cows come up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass.
¹⁹ But then I saw seven sick-looking cows, scrawny and thin, come up after them. I’ve never seen such sorry-looking animals in all the land of Egypt.
²⁰ These thin, scrawny cows ate the seven fat cows.
²¹ But afterward you wouldn’t have known it, for they were still as thin and scrawny as before! Then I woke up.
²² “Then I fell asleep again, and I had another dream. This time I saw seven heads of grain, full and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.
²³ Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were blighted, shriveled, and withered by the east wind.
²⁴ And the shriveled heads swallowed the seven healthy heads. I told these dreams to the magicians, but no one could tell me what they mean.”
²⁵ Joseph responded, “Both of Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God is telling Pharaoh in advance what he is about to do.
²⁶ The seven healthy cows and the seven healthy heads of grain both represent seven years of prosperity.
²⁷ The seven thin, scrawny cows that came up later and the seven thin heads of grain, withered by the east wind, represent seven years of famine.
²⁸ “This will happen just as I have described it, for God has revealed to Pharaoh in advance what he is about to do.