16. Joseph answered the king, “I am not able to explain the meaning of dreams. God will do this for the king.”
17. Then the king said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile River.
18. I saw seven fat and beautiful cows. They came up out of the river and ate the grass.
19. Then I saw seven more cows come out of the river. They were thin and lean and ugly. They were the worst looking cows I have seen in all the land of Egypt.
20. And these thin and ugly cows ate the first seven fat cows.