Genesis 41
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Genesis 41:17-32

17And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: 19And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 20And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 21And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.1 22And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads came up in one stalk, full and good: 23And, behold, seven heads, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:2 24And the thin heads devoured the seven good heads: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

25And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. 26The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good heads are seven years: the dream is one. 27And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty heads blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 28This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. 29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: 30And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 31And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.3 32And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.4

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 41:21 eaten…: Heb. come to the inward parts of them. ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 41:23 withered: or, small. ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 41:31 grievous: Heb. heavy. ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 41:32 established…: or, prepared of God. ↩

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