American Standard Version
"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. "
— Genesis 41:24, American Standard Version
“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.”
“The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."”
“The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.””
“And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.”
“And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.”
“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.”
and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good:
and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
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.
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
And the seven lean and ill-favored 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.