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After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,
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and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.
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Then seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
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The ugly and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.
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Then he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.
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Then seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them.
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The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.
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