17. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream, I stood on the bank of the Nile.
18. And suddenly there came up out of the river seven cows, fattened and fine-looking, and they grazed in the reeds.
19. Then seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and gaunt. I have never seen such ugliness in all the land of Egypt.
20. And the gaunt and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
21. And when they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as before. Then I awoke.
22. “I also saw in my dreams seven ears of grain, full and good, suddenly come up on one stalk.
23. Then seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprang up after them.
24. And the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. So I told this to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”