American Standard Version

Genesis 41:20-29 American Standard Version (ASV)

20. and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

21. and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22. And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good:

23. and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

24. and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

25. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh.

26. The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

27. And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.

28. That is the thing which I spake unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do he hath showed unto Pharaoh.

29. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: