Genesis 41:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ and seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And behold, there came up out of the river [Nile] seven fat, sleek, and handsome cows, and they grazed in the reed grass [of a marshy pasture].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass:

Common English Bible

¹⁸ In front of me, seven fattened, stout cows climbed up out of the Nile and grazed on the reeds.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ and seven cows climbed up from the river, exceedingly beautiful and full of flesh. And they grazed in a pasture of a marshy greenery.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And seven kine came up out of the river exceeding beautiful and full of flesh. And they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.

Genesis 41:18 Cross References

Genesis 41:17

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile;

Genesis 41:19

and seven other cows came up after them, poor and very gaunt and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:2

and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows sleek and fat, and they fed in the reed grass.

Jeremiah 24:5

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 24:8

“But thus says the Lord: Like the bad figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.