The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.
Genesis 41:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, as are the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind. They are seven years of famine. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the seven thin and ill favored cows that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears [of grain], blighted and shriveled by the east wind; they are seven years of hunger and famine. American Standard Version (1901) And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine. Common English Bible The seven thin and frail cows, climbing up after them, are seven years. The seven thin ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, are seven years of famine. Catholic Public Domain Version Likewise, the seven thin and emaciated cows, which ascended after them, and the seven thin ears of grain, which were struck with the burning wind, are seven approaching years of famine. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come. |
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.
Then seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go with your household and settle wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”