Genesis 41:26

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.”

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BSBPD

“The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 41:26 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
  2. Genesis 40:12Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
  3. Genesis 40:18Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
  4. Genesis 41:2when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
  5. Genesis 41:5but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.
  6. Genesis 41:29Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,
  7. Genesis 41:47During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.
  8. Genesis 41:53When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,
  9. Exodus 12:11This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
  10. Exodus 26:6Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
  11. Daniel 2:45And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
  12. 1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
  13. 1 John 5:7For there are three that testify:

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