Genesis 41:20
18 when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
19 After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
21 When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.
22 In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
- KJV
- And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
- WEB
- The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
- ASV
- and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
- DARBY
- And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
- BLB
- And the thin and ugly cows ate the first seven fat cows.
- ÅB
- Og de magre og stygge kyr spiste opp de syv første, fete kyr.
- OTB
- De magre, stygge kyrne åt opp de sju fete kyrne som kom opp først.
- B1930
- Og de magre og stygge kyr åt op de syv første, fete kyr.