16. Joseph answered, “I cannot, Your Majesty, but God will give a favourable interpretation.”
17. The king said, “I dreamt that I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18. when seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the river and began feeding on the grass.
19. Then seven other cows came up which were thin and bony. They were the poorest cows I have ever seen anywhere in Egypt.
20. The thin cows ate up the fat ones,
21. but no one would have known it, because they looked just as bad as before. Then I woke up.