KJV King James Version
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
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Genesis 41:22
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.
WEB World English Bible
I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
ASV American Standard Version
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good;
Surrounding context — Genesis 41
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 the 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 in 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 devoured the seven good ears: and I told [this] 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: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do.
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