And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
This is Pharaoh's first dream as he told it to Joseph, in which seven lean and ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows. In the dream he stood upon the bank of the river when seven fat-fleshed and well-favored cows came up out of the river and fed in a meadow, followed by seven other cows, poor and lean-fleshed and very ill-favored, worse in badness than any ever seen in all the land of Egypt. Although the lean and ill-favored cows ate the fat cows, it could not be known that they had eaten them, for they remained as ill-favored as at the beginning.
He told this dream together with his dream of seven full and good ears devoured by seven withered, thin ears to the magicians, but none of them could declare its meaning to him. The cows represent years: the seven lean cows foretell seven years of famine that will follow seven years of abundance. The coming famine will be so severe that the earlier plenty will no longer be remembered. The dream warns Pharaoh of what God will soon bring to pass.
This is Pharaoh's first dream as he told it to Joseph, in which seven lean and ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows. In the dream he stood upon the bank of the river when seven fat-fleshed and well-favored cows came up out of the river and fed in a meadow, followed by seven other cows, poor and lean-fleshed and very ill-favored, worse in badness than any ever seen in all the land of Egypt. Although the lean and ill-favored cows ate the fat cows, it could not be known that they had eaten them, for they remained as ill-favored as at the beginning.
He told this dream together with his dream of seven full and good ears devoured by seven withered, thin ears to the magicians, but none of them could declare its meaning to him. The cows represent years: the seven lean cows foretell seven years of famine that will follow seven years of abundance. The coming famine will be so severe that the earlier plenty will no longer be remembered. The dream warns Pharaoh of what God will soon bring to pass.