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Genesis 41:26-35 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

26. the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;

27. and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;

28. this [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.

29. `Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,

30. and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land,

31. and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it [is] very grievous.

32. `And because of the repeating of the dream unto Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hastening to do it.

33. `And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;

34. let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty,

35. and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh--food in the cities; and they have kept [it],

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