Genesis 41:20

Then did the lean and uncomely heifers eat up the first seven fat heifers;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

In Context

19And lo! seven other heifers, coming up after them, poor and very uncomely in form and lean in flesh,—I had never seen such in all the land of Egypt, for uncomeliness.

21and they passed into their stomach yet could it not be known that they had passed into them, their appearance, being uncomely, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:3And lo! seven heifers more coming up after them out of the river, uncomely in appearance and lean in flesh,—and they came and stood beside the heifers, by the lip of the river.

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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