Bible verse
when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
Genesis 41:18 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 41.
14 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
16 “I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18 when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
19 After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
20 Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
21 When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.
22 In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.
KJV
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
ASV
and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass:
ERV
and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass:
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