The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed. ¹ 

He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell ¹  me where they are grazing their flocks.”

When Jacob heard ¹  there was grain in Egypt, he ²  said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?” ³ 

The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven ¹  fat cows.

seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, ¹  and they grazed in the reeds.

Then ¹  seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows ²  as these in all the land of Egypt!

When Joseph reached Shechem, ¹  a man found him wandering ²  in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds. ¹ 

Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, ¹  and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river. ² 

So Potiphar ¹  left ²  everything he had in Joseph’s care; ³  he gave no thought ⁴  to anything except the food he ate. ⁵  Now Joseph was well built and good-looking. ⁶ 

The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent ¹  seven years of famine.

When they had eaten them, ¹  no one would have known ²  that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.

When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up ¹  and saw ²  a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt. ³ 

But Lot’s ¹  wife looked back longingly ²  and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Rebekah looked up ¹  and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel

Leah’s eyes were tender, ¹  but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.) ² 

When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”

God saw ¹  that the light was good, ²  so God separated ³  the light from the darkness.

God saw the earth, and indeed ¹  it was ruined, ²  for all living creatures ³  on the earth were sinful. ⁴