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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: "Behold, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river.
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Suddenly seven cows came up out of the river, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow.
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Then behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and gaunt, such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt.
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And the gaunt and ugly cows ate up the first seven, the fat cows.
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When they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were just as ugly as at the beginning. So I awoke.
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Also I saw in my dream, and suddenly seven heads came up on one stalk, full and good.
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Then behold, seven heads, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them.
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And the thin heads devoured the seven good heads. So I told this to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
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Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do:
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years; the dreams are one.
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And the seven thin and ugly cows which came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty heads blighted by the east wind are seven years of famine.