Genesis 41:20

20 The thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat 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 and seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.
19 Then seven other cows came up after them, poor, very ugly, and thin. Never had I seen such ugly ones in all the land of Egypt.
20 The thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows,
21 but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had done so, for they were still as ugly as before. Then I awoke.
22 I fell asleep a second time and I saw in my dream seven ears of grain, full and good, growing on one stalk,
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