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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 41, Verse 20

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And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
King James Version
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
American Standard Version
and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
New English Translation
The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.
World English Bible
The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
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And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they [were] still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
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And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
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And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told [this] unto the magicians; but [there was] none that could declare [it] to me.
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And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is] one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do.
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The seven good kine [are] seven years; and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one.
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And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
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This [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God [is] about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
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Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
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And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;