18. when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.
19. After them, seven other cows — ugly, very sickly, and thin — came up. I’ve never seen such ugly ones as these in all the land of Egypt.
20. Then the thin, ugly cows ate the first seven well-fed cows.
21. When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.
22. In my dream I had also seen seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, coming up on one stalk.
23. After them, seven heads of grain — withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind — sprouted up.
24. The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”