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Genesis 41:18

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

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Genesis 41:18 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

BSB Berean Standard Bible

when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.

NHEB New Heart English Bible

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

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In context

15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

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

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

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.

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

21 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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