Genesis 41:20

20 The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

Genesis 41:20 in Other Translations

20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

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

20 These thin, scrawny cows ate the seven fat cows.

20 Then the seven skinny, ugly cows ate up the first seven healthy cows.

20 Then the thin, ugly cows ate the first seven well-fed cows.

Genesis 41:20 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 41:20

And the lean and the ill favoured kine
The same as previously described; (See Gill on Genesis 41:4).

Genesis 41:20 In-Context

18 when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.

19 After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.

20 The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

21 But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

22 “In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.