Genesis 41:16-21
The Message
16 Joseph answered, “Not I, but God. God will set Pharaoh’s mind at ease.”
17-21 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile. Seven cows, shimmering with health, came up out of the river and grazed on the marsh grass. On their heels seven more cows, all skin and bones, came up. I’ve never seen uglier cows anywhere in Egypt. Then the seven skinny, ugly cows ate up the first seven healthy cows. But you couldn’t tell by looking—after eating them up they were just as skinny and ugly as before. Then I woke up.
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Genesis 41:16-18
New International Version
16 “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”(A)
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,(B) 18 when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.(C)
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