when up out of the Nile came seven cows, fine-looking and fat; they grazed in the reed grass.
After a lapse of two years, Pharaoh had a dream. He was standing by the Nile,
when up from the Nile came seven cows, fat and well-formed; they grazed in the reed grass.
Behind them seven other cows, poor-looking and gaunt, came up out of the Nile; and standing on the bank of the Nile beside the others,
Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the reed grass flourish without water?
Its streams shall become foul, and the canals of Egypt shall dwindle and parch. Reeds and rushes shall wither away,
and bulrushes on the bank of the Nile; All the sown land along the Nile shall dry up and blow away, and be no more.