Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 41:20
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Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
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And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
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The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
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and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
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Genesis 41
18 when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
19 After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
20 Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
21 When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.
22 In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.
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