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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 · 2000

and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And 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) · 1752

And they devoured and consumed the former,

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And 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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