World English Bible

Genesis 41:20

“The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,”

Verse in context — Genesis 41

and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).