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Genesis 41:20 β€” Meaning and Application

King James Version

β€œAnd the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:”

Genesis 41:20

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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:

20

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. {eaten...: Heb. come to the inward parts of them}

22

And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

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