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Genesis 41:20

Verse 20 of 57. The 41st of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

16Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

17Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;

18and behold, seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river. They fed in the marsh grass;

19and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

20The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;

21and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;

23and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.