Genesis 41:26

the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;

Young's Literal Translation

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

25And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, 'The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh;

27and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;

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Cross References

Genesis 40:12And Joseph saith to him, 'This [is] its interpretation: the three branches are three days;

Genesis 41:2and lo, from the River coming up are seven kine, of fair appearance, and fat [in] flesh, and they feed among the reeds;

Genesis 41:29'Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,

Genesis 41:53And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 26:6and thou hast made fifty hooks of gold, and hast joined the curtains one to another by the hooks, and the tabernacle hath been one.

1 Corinthians 10:4and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the 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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