Genesis 41:26

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years. It is one dream.

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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

25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s two dreams signify the same thing; God has made known to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

27The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are also seven years, and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind represent seven years of famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days;

Genesis 41:2he saw coming up from the Nile seven cows, good-looking and fat, and they had been feeding in the river grass.

Genesis 41:29Seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt are coming,

Genesis 41:53When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt were over,

1 Corinthians 10:4and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the 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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