Catholic Public Domain Version
"These devoured and consumed the first, "
— Genesis 41:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:”
“and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: ”
“The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,”
“The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.”
“And they devoured and consumed the former,”
“And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;”
“And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:”
Therefore, Pharaoh explained what he had seen: “I thought myself to be standing on the bank of a river,
and seven cows climbed up from the river, exceedingly beautiful and full of flesh. And they grazed in a pasture of a marshy greenery.
And behold, there followed after these, another seven cows, with such deformity and emaciation as I had never seen in the land of Egypt.
These devoured and consumed the first,
giving no indication of being full. But they remained in the same state of emaciation and squalor. Awakening, but being weighed down into sleep again,
I saw a dream. Seven ears of grain sprang up on one stalk, full and very beautiful.
Likewise, another seven, thin and struck with blight, rose up from the stalk.