Genesis 41:21

But afterwards, no one would have known that the thin cows ate them, because they were just as ugly as they were before. Then I woke up.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

In Context

20The thin ugly cows ate the seven fat cows that came up first.

22Then I had another dream. I saw seven heads of grain. They were full of kernels of grain and ripe, and they were all growing on one stalk.

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:20Israeli people will attack their neighbors on the right to get food from them, but they will still be hungry. They will kill those who live in houses on the left and eat their flesh, but their stomachs will still not be full.

Revelation 10:9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. In your mouth it will taste sweet like honey, but it will make your stomach bitter.”

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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