Genesis 41:19

19 Just then, seven other cows, weak and frail and thin, climbed up after them. I've never seen such awful cows in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:19 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 41:19

And, behold, seven other kine
Here some addition is made: these are said not only to be very ill favoured, and leanfleshed, (See Gill on Genesis 41:3), but poor,
thin, meagre, exhausted of their flesh and strength through some disease upon them, or want of food: and it follows, what was not before expressed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt, for badness;
so poor, so lean, and so ill favoured; for whatever might be seen in other countries, never were such seen in Egypt, which was famous for good cattle.

Genesis 41:19 In-Context

17 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile.
18 In front of me, seven fattened, stout cows climbed up out of the Nile and grazed on the reeds.
19 Just then, seven other cows, weak and frail and thin, climbed up after them. I've never seen such awful cows in all the land of Egypt.
20 Then the thin, frail cows devoured the first seven, fattened cows.
21 But after they swallowed them whole, no one would have known it. They looked just as bad as they had before. Then I woke up.
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