Revised Version 1885

Genesis 41:18-28 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

18. and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass:

19. and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

20. and the lean and ill favoured 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 favoured, 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 favoured 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 shewed unto Pharaoh.