16 Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.
18 Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
19 Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!
20 The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.
21 When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.
22 I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.