Genesis 41:2
Good News Translation
when seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the river and began to feed on the grass.

New Revised Standard Version
and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.

Contemporary English Version
Suddenly, seven fat, healthy cows came up from the river and started eating grass along the bank.

New American Bible
when up out of the Nile came seven cows, fine-looking and fat; they grazed in the reed grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

there came.

Genesis 41:17-27 So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river, . . .

a meadow.

Job 8:11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

); so called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things together, from {achah,} to join, connect: thus the Latin {juncus,} a bulrush, a {jungendo,} from joining, for the same reason. He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near the Nile which Hasselquist describes as having scarce any branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth, channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven feet high. The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves.

Context
The Dreams of Pharaoh
1After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river, 2Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.3Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:…
Cross References
Genesis 41:1
After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

Genesis 41:3
Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:

Genesis 41:18
And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.

Job 8:11
Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

Isaiah 19:7
The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.

Genesis 41:1
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