Genesis 41:20
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
Genesis 41:20 in other translations
| BSB | Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first. |
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| WEB | The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle; |
| ASV | and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: |
| YLT | ‘And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine, |
| DARBY | And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine; |
| BBE | And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first; |
| Webster | And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows: |
What does Genesis 41:20 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 41:9-32
God's time for the enlargement of his people is the fittest time. If the chief butler had got Joseph to be released from prison, it is probable he would have gone back to the land of the Hebrews. Then he had neither been so blessed himself, nor such a blessing to his family, as afterwards he proved. Joseph, when introduced to Pharaoh, gives honour to God. Pharaoh had dreamed that he stood upon the bank of the river…
Genesis 41:20 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Genesis 41:19
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
- Genesis 41:20
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
- Genesis 41:21
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
Genesis 41:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y las vacas flacas y feas devoraban á las siete primeras vacas gruesas: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les vaches maigres et laides mangèrent les sept premières vaches, les grasses: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die mageren und häßlichen Kühe fraßen die sieben ersten fetten Kühe; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quæ, devoratis et consumptis prioribus, |