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Genesis 41:20
And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;
Genesis 41:20 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 41:20 in other translations
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
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In context
17 Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:
18 And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;
19 Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;
20 And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;
21 And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.
22 And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:
23 And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:
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