1 Two years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing near the Nile.
2 In front of him, seven healthy-looking, fattened cows climbed up out of the Nile and grazed on the reeds.
3 Just then, seven other cows, terrible-looking and scrawny, climbed up out of the Nile after them and stood beside them on the bank of the Nile.
4 The terrible-looking, scrawny cows devoured the seven healthy-looking, fattened cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
5 He went back to sleep and had a second dream, in which seven ears of grain, full and healthy, grew on a single stalk.