Catholic Public Domain Version
"And they devoured the beauty of the first. I explained this dream to the interpreters, and there is no one who can unfold it.” "
— Genesis 41:24, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
“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. ”
“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.”
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.
And they devoured the beauty of the first. I explained this dream to the interpreters, and there is no one who can unfold it.”
Joseph responded: “The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.
The seven beautiful cows, and the seven full ears of grain, are seven years of abundance. And so the force of the dreams is understood to be the same.
Likewise, the seven thin and emaciated cows, which ascended after them, and the seven thin ears of grain, which were struck with the burning wind, are seven approaching years of famine.