Genesis 41:26

The seven beautiful cows, and the seven full ears of grain, are seven years of abundance. And so the force of the dreams is understood to be the same.

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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

25Joseph responded: “The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.

27Likewise, the seven thin and emaciated cows, which ascended after them, and the seven thin ears of grain, which were struck with the burning wind, are seven approaching years of famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three shoots are the next three days,

Genesis 41:2from which ascended seven cows, exceedingly beautiful and stout. And they pastured in marshy places.

Genesis 41:29Behold, there will arrive seven years of great fertility throughout the entire land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:53And so, when the seven years of fertility that occurred in Egypt had passed,

Exodus 26:6You shall also make fifty rings of gold, with which the veils of the curtains are to be joined, so that it shall be one tabernacle.

1 Corinthians 10:4And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that 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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