“Also, I looked in my dream and saw seven heads coming up on one stalk, complete and good,
Genesis 41:23 - The Scriptures 2009 then saw seven heads, withered, lean, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And behold, seven [other] ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them. American Standard Version (1901) and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: Common English Bible Just then, seven hard and thin ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them, Catholic Public Domain Version Likewise, another seven, thin and struck with blight, rose up from the stalk. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Other seven also, thin and blasted, sprung of the stock. |
“Also, I looked in my dream and saw seven heads coming up on one stalk, complete and good,
“And the lean heads swallowed the seven good heads. And I spoke to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
and saw seven lean heads, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them.
And their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame, they were as the grass of the field and the green plants, as the grass on the house-tops and withered before it came up.
“Though he bears fruit among his brothers, an east wind comes, a wind from יהוה comes up from the wilderness, and it dries up his fountain, and his spring becomes dry – it plunders a treasure of all desirable objects.
“For they sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud, it yields no grain. If it does yield, strangers swallow it up.
“Ephrayim has been stricken, their root has dried up, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I shall put to death the precious ones of their womb.”