¹⁸ Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.^{[a] 19} Then^[b] seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows^[c] as these in all the land of Egypt! ²⁰ The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven^[d] fat cows.