Genesis 41:18

18 Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.

Genesis 41:18 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 41:18

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine
Cows or heifers, (See Gill on Genesis 41:2); the account of them is the same here as there, and of the place where they fed, only the words are transposed.

Genesis 41:18 In-Context

16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."

17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.

18 Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.

19 Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.

20 And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,