Genesis 41:5
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New International Version (©2011)
He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But he fell asleep again and had a second dream. This time he saw seven heads of grain, plump and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After he had fallen back to sleep, he had a second dream, in which seven ears of plump, fruit-filled grain grew up on a single stalk.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He fell asleep again and had a second dream. Seven good, healthy heads of grain were growing on a single stalk.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, full and good.

American King James Version
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, rank and good.

American Standard Version
And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:

Darby Bible Translation
And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven ears of corn grew up on one stalk, fat and good.

English Revised Version
And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

World English Bible
He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

Young's Literal Translation
And he sleepeth, and dreameth a second time, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:1-8 The means of Joseph's being freed from prison were Pharaoh's dreams, as here related. Now that God no longer speaks to us in that way, it is no matter how little we either heed dreams, or tell them. The telling of foolish dreams can make no better than foolish talk. But these dreams showed that they were sent of God; when he awoke, Pharaoh's spirit was troubled.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - And he slept and dreamed the second time (that same night): and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank (i.e. fat) and good. This clearly pointed to the corn of the Nile valley, the triticum compositum, which Bears seven ears upon one stalk. The assertion of Herodotus, that the Egyptians counted it a disgrace to live on wheat and barley (2:36), Wilkinson regards as incorrect, since "both wheat and barley are noticed in Lower Egypt long before Herodotus' time (Exodus 9:31, 32), and the paintings of the Thebaid prove that they were grown extensively in that part of the country; they were among the offerings in the temples; and the king, at his coronation, cutting some ears of wheat, afterwards offered to the gods as the staple production of Egypt, shows how great a value was set on a grain which Herodotus would lead us to suppose was held in abhorrence" (Rawlinson's 'Hexodotus,' vol. 2. p. 49).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he slept, and dreamed the second time,.... He fell asleep again quickly, and dreamed another dream the same night, and to the same purpose, being much of the like kind with the former:

and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good; which were very uncommon even in those fruitful countries; though Dr. Shaw (e) observes of Barbary, which vied with Egypt for fruitfulness, that it sometimes happens that one stalk of wheat will bear two ears, while each of these ears will as often shoot out into a number of lesser ones, thereby affording a most plentiful increase.

(e) Travels, p. 137. Ed. 2.

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The Dreams of Pharaoh
…4And the ill favored and skinney cows did eat up the seven well favored and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke. 5And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, rank and good. 6And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. …

Genesis 41:4 And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
Genesis 41:6 After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted--thin and scorched by the east wind.