Genesis 41
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Genesis 41:17-24

17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “Behold, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river.

18Suddenly seven cows came up out of the river, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow.

19Then behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and gaunt, such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt.

20And the gaunt and ugly cows ate up the first seven, the fat cows.

21When they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were just as ugly as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22Also I saw in my dream, and suddenly seven heads came up on one stalk, full and good.

23Then behold, seven heads, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them.

24And the thin heads devoured the seven good heads. So I told this to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

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