OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Genesis 41:21

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and 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.

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Genesis 41:18–24

18

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

19

and 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.

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

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and 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.

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

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

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The 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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