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Genesis 41:20
The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
Genesis 41:20 · World English Bible
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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 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.
22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;
23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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