New International Version

Genesis 41:19-25 New International Version (NIV)

19. After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.

20. The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

21. But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

22. “In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.

23. After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.

24. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.”

25. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.