Genesis 41:20
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New International Version (©2011)
The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

New Living Translation (©2007)
These thin, scrawny cows ate the seven fat cows.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the thin, ugly cows ate the first seven well-fed cows.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But those thin, gaunt cows gobbled up the first seven healthy cows!

NET Bible (©2006)
The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The thin, sickly cows ate up the seven well-fed ones.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the thin and the ill favored cows did eat up the first seven fat cows:

American King James Version
And the lean and the ill favored cows did eat up the first seven fat cows:

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the devoured and consumed the former,

Darby Bible Translation
And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;

English Revised Version
and the lean and ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows:

World English Bible
The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

Young's Literal Translation
'And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:9-32 God's time for the enlargement of his people is the fittest time. If the chief butler had got Joseph to be released from prison, it is probable he would have gone back to the land of the Hebrews. Then he had neither been so blessed himself, nor such a blessing to his family, as afterwards he proved. Joseph, when introduced to Pharaoh, gives honour to God. Pharaoh had dreamed that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones, and the lean ones, come out of the river. Egypt has no rain, but the plenty of the year depends upon the overflowing of the river Nile. See how many ways Providence has of dispensing its gifts; yet our dependence is still the same upon the First Cause, who makes every creature what it is to us, be it rain or river. See to what changes the comforts of this life are subject. We cannot be sure that to-morrow shall be as this day, or next year as this. We must learn how to want, as well as how to abound. Mark the goodness of God in sending the seven years of plenty before those of famine, that provision might be made. The produce of the earth is sometimes more, and sometimes less; yet, take one with another, he that gathers much, has nothing over; and he that gathers little, has no lack, Ex 16:18. And see the perishing nature of our worldly enjoyments. The great harvests of the years of plenty were quite lost, and swallowed up in the years of famine; and that which seemed very much, yet did but just serve to keep the people alive. There is bread which lasts to eternal life, which it is worth while to labour for. They that make the things of this world their good things, will find little pleasure in remembering that they have received them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the lean and the ill favoured kine,.... The same as previously described; See Gill on Genesis 41:4.

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Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams
…19And, behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ill favored and skinney, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 20And the lean and the ill favored cows did eat up the first seven fat cows: 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. …

Genesis 41:3 After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.
Genesis 41:19 After them, seven other cows came up--scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:21 But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.