Genesis 41:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had done so, for they were still as ugly as before. Then I awoke.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And when they had eaten them up, it could not be detected and known that they had eaten them, for they were still as thin and emaciated as at the beginning. Then I awoke. [But again I fell asleep and dreamed.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

Common English Bible

²¹ But after they swallowed them whole, no one would have known it. They looked just as bad as they had before. Then I woke up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ giving no indication of being full. But they remained in the same state of emaciation and squalor. Awakening, but being weighed down into sleep again,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,

Genesis 41:21 Cross References

Genesis 41:20

The thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows,

Genesis 41:22

I fell asleep a second time, and I saw in my dream seven ears of grain, full and good, growing on one stalk,

Genesis 41:3

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.

Psalm 37:19

they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.

Isaiah 9:20

They gorged on the right but still were hungry, and they devoured on the left but were not satisfied; they devoured the flesh of their own kindred;

Ezekiel 3:3

He said to me, “Mortal, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.