Genesis 41:26

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

In Context

25Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

27The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

Genesis 41:2And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

Genesis 41:29Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

Genesis 41:53And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

Exodus 26:6Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made.

1 Corinthians 10:4And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

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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