Genesis 41:26

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.

Berean Standard Bible

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

25At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

27Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Genesis 41:2when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.

Genesis 41:29Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

Genesis 41:53When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Exodus 26:6Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied 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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