Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
17 The king said, "I dreamed that I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18 when seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the river and began feeding on the grass.
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when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.
19 Then seven other cows came up which were thin and bony. They were the poorest cows I have ever seen anywhere in Egypt.
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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 thin cows ate up the fat ones,
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The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.
21 but no one would have known it, because they looked just as bad as before. Then I woke up.
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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 I also dreamed that I saw seven heads of grain which were full and ripe, growing on one stalk.
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“In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.
23 Then seven heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,
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After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.
24 and the thin heads of grain swallowed the full ones. I told the dreams to the magicians, but none of them could explain them to me."
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The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.”
25 Joseph said to the king, "The two dreams mean the same thing; God has told you what he is going to do.
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Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven full heads of grain are also seven years; they have the same meaning.
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream.
27 The seven thin cows which came up later and the seven thin heads of grain scorched by the desert wind are seven years of famine.
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The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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