This [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh As an interpretation of his dreams: what God [is] about to do, he sheweth unto Pharaoh: the events of fourteen years with respect to plenty and sterility.
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.
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The seven lean and gaunt cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.
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It is as I told Pharaoh, God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
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There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,
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but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land,
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