Genesis 41:27

The seven skinny and ugly cows that came after them and the seven thin heads of grain dried by the east wind represent seven years of famine.

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In The King James Version

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

In Context

26The seven good cows and the seven good heads of grain represent seven good years of harvest. The dreams mean the same thing.

28It's just as I told Your Majesty—God has shown Pharaoh what he is going to do.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 24:19So David went and did what the Lord had ordered, as Gad had told him.

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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