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Genesis 41:20

World English Bible

The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;

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Genesis 41:20 in other translations

and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

Genesis 41:20 · American Standard Version

Genesis 41:20 in context

  1. 18and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;
  2. 19and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
  3. 20The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
  4. 21and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
  5. 22I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;