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.
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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.
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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:
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And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, naught.
Hebrew, naught.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up…
Gen 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:
Ver. 19. {See Trapp on "Gen 41:2"} {See Trapp on "Gen 41:3"} {See Trapp on "Gen 41:4"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the lean and the ill favoured kine,.... The…
And the lean and the ill favoured kine,.... The same as previously described; See Gill on Gen 41:4.
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Genesis 41:21
gen 41:21
gen 41:21
gen 41:21And when they had eaten them up,.... Or "were come into their bowels" (k), into their inward parts, their bellies, being swallowed and devoured by them:
it could not be known that they had eaten them: or were in their bellies, they seemed never the fuller nor the fatter for them:
but they were still ill favoured as at the beginning; looked as thin and as meagre as they did when they first came out of the river, or were first seen by Pharaoh:
so I awoke; surprised at what he had seen; this was his first dream.
(k) "et venerunt ad interiora earum", Pagninus, Montanus; "in ventrem istarum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Tigurine version.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain behold, seven other kine . . . poor and…
behold, seven other kine . . . poor and ill-favoured--The cow being the emblem of fruitfulness, the different years of plenty and of famine were aptly represented by the different condition of those kine--the plenty, by the cattle feeding on the richest fodder; and the dearth, by the lean and famishing kine, which the pangs of hunger drove to act contrary to their nature.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) Poor and very ill-favoured and leanfleshed.—Pharaoh, in his…
(19) Poor and very ill-favoured and leanfleshed.—Pharaoh, in his recital, describes his dreams at greater length than is the case in the narrative (Gen_41:2-7), and also mentions the impressions made upon his imagination by what he had seen, as, for instance, that he had never beheld such lean cattle, and that they were as wretched in look after eating up the fat kine as before. There is also a slight difference in his description of the kine. In Gen_41:3 they are called “evil in appearance, and lean of flesh;” but the words here are “lean, and evil in shape, and thin of flesh.”
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Behold, seven other cows
Behold, seven other cows
Pharaoh uses the word "Behold" to make Joseph pay attention to surprising information.
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undesirable, and thin
"weak, and skinny." See how you translated this phrase in Genesis 41:3.
such undesirableness
The abstract noun "undesirableness" can be translated with an adjective. AT: "such ugly cows" or "such worthless looking cows" (See: Abstract Nouns)
fat cows
"well-fed cows." See how you translated this phrase in Genesis 41:2.
it could not be known that they had eaten them
This can be stated in active form. AT: "no one would have been able to tell that the thin cows had eaten the fat cows" (See: Active or Passive)
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