Genesis 41:21
When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.
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- Ps 37:19 : 19 They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.
- Isa 9:20 : 20 They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!
- Ezek 3:3 : 3 He said to me,“Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
- Rev 10:9-9 : 9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me,“Take the scroll and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.” 10 So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
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- Gen 41:18-203 verses87%
18Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
19Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!
20The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.
- Gen 41:1-88 verses86%
1Joseph’s Rise to Power At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,
2seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
3Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.
4The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
5Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.
6Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.
7The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.
8In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
- Gen 41:22-243 verses81%
22I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.
23Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.
24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”
- Gen 41:26-272 verses80%
26The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.
27The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent seven years of famine.
- Gen 41:30-312 verses71%
30But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.
31The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.
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15At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.
- Gen 37:6-72 verses69%
6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:
7There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!”
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10“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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26Then they will say,‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.’”
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20They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
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30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,
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19They said to one another,“Here comes this master of dreams!
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17In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head.”
- Gen 40:5-62 verses68%
5Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream the same night. Each man’s dream had its own meaning.
6When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed.
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11We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.
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35They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.
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2When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them,“Return, buy us a little more food.”
- Amos 7:1-22 verses67%
1Symbolic Visions of Judgment The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout.(The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)
2When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said,“Sovereign LORD, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!”
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14He said to them,“Out of the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong one came something sweet.”They could not solve the riddle for three days.
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36This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”
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54Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.
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7I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.