Genesis 41:17-24

17So Pharaoh told Joseph his dream. “In my dream,” he said, “I was standing on the bank of the Nile River,

18and I saw seven fat, healthy cows come up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass.

19But 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.

20These thin, scrawny cows ate the seven fat cows.

21But afterward you wouldn’t have known it, for they were still as thin and scrawny as before! Then I woke up.

22“In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.

23Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were blighted, shriveled, and withered by the east wind.

24And the shriveled heads swallowed the seven healthy heads. I told these dreams to the magicians, but no one could tell me what they mean.”