Genesis 41:6
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New International Version (©2011)
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted--thin and scorched by the east wind.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were shriveled and withered by the east wind.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then behold, seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Suddenly seven thin ears of grain that had been scorched by an east wind sprouted up right after them

NET Bible (©2006)
Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Seven other heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted behind them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And, behold, seven thin ears and dried by the east wind sprung up after them.

American King James Version
And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

American Standard Version
And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,

Darby Bible Translation
And behold, seven ears, thin and parched with the east wind, sprung up after them.

English Revised Version
And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

World English Bible
Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

Young's Literal Translation
and lo, seven ears, thin, and blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And, behold, seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind,.... Which is very fatal to corn, to dry, burn, smite, or blast it; and especially to the corn in Egypt, whither it blew from the desert of Arabia: these

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Blasted with the east wind - It has been very properly observed that all the mischief done to corn or fruit, by blasting, smutting, mildews, locusts, etc., is attributed to the east wind. See Exodus 10:13; Exodus 14:21; Psalm 78:26; Ezekiel 17:10; Jonah 4:8. In Egypt it is peculiarly destructive, because it comes through the parched deserts of Arabia, often destroying vast numbers of men and women. The destructive nature of the simoom or smoom is mentioned by almost all travelers. Mr. Bruce speaks of it in his Travels in Egypt. On their way to Syene, Idris their guide, seeing one of these destroying blasts coming, cried out with a loud voice to the company, "Fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom! I saw," says Mr. B., "from the S. E. a haze come, in color like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat upon the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor or purple haze which I saw was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of a heat to threaten suffocation. for my part, I found distinctly in my breast that I had imbibed a part of it; nor was I free from an asthmatic sensation till I had been some months in Italy, at the bathe of Poretta, near two years afterwards." - Travels, vol. vi., p. 462. On another occasion the whole company were made ill by one of these pestilential blasts, so that they had scarcely strength to load their camels - ibid., p. 484. The action of this destructive wind is referred to by the Prophet Hosea 13:15 : Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an East Wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up From The Wilderness, and his spring shall Become Dry, and his fountain shall be Dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Geneva Study Bible

And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

Genesis 41:6 Parallel Commentaries
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The Dreams of Pharaoh
…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. 7And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. …

Genesis 41:5 He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.
Genesis 41:7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.
Genesis 41:23 After them, seven other heads sprouted--withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.
Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on the wind; he pursues the east wind all day and multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
Hosea 13:15 even though he thrives among his brothers. An east wind from the LORD will come, blowing in from the desert; his spring will fail and his well dry up. His storehouse will be plundered of all its treasures.