Genesis 41:20
What does Genesis 41:20 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 41:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they devoured and consumed the former,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
Context
v.19and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
v.20This passage
v.21and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
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