Genesis 41:20
18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
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.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
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.