Genesis 41:2

Suddenly seven healthy fat cows come up out of the river. They started eating the grass that was on the riverbank.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

In Context

1Two complete years later, the king of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, he was standing alongside the Nile River.

3Soon seven other cows, unhealthy-looking and thin, came up behind them from the Nile River. They stood alongside the fat cows that were on the riverbank.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:2-9

Pharaoh's Portentous Dream. ( b. c. 1715.) 1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So… Read the whole commentary →

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