17. So Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream, there I was, standing by the bank of the Nile.
18. And to my surprise, out of the Nile seven cows were coming up, beefy and good-looking, and they grazed in the reeds.
19. Then all of a sudden, there were seven other cows coming up after them, feeble, very ugly and emaciated. I’ve never seen the likes of these in the whole land of Egypt for ugliness.
20. Then the emaciated and ugly cows ate the first seven beefy cows.
21. When they were devoured, one couldn’t tell that they had been devoured. Their appearance was as ugly as it was at first. Then I woke up.
22. Then I saw in my dream, there were seven ears of corn coming up on one stalk, plump and good.
23. Then suddenly, there were seven ears of corn, dried up, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouting up after them.
24. Then the thin ears of corn swallowed up the seven good ears of corn. So I told the fortune-telling priests, but no one could provide me with an explanation.”
25. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dream is one. God has told Pharaoh what He is about to do.
26. The seven good cows: they are seven years. Also the seven ears of corn: they’re seven years. It is one dream.