Genesis 41:20

And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

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In The King James Version

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

In Context

19Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

21And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:3And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:18-33

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream. ( b. c. 1715.) 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 21 And when they had eaten… Read the whole commentary →

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