Genesis 41:20

20 And the thin and gaunt 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 and seven other cows came up after them, poor and very gaunt and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.

20 And the thin and gaunt cows ate up the first seven fat cows,

21 but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as gaunt as at the beginning. Then I awoke.

22 I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good;