Genesis 41:4   (Read all of Genesis 41)

And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Genesis 41:5   (Read all of Genesis 41)

He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

Genesis 41:6   (Read all of Genesis 41)

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted-thin and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:7   (Read all of Genesis 41)

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.

Genesis 41:18   (Read all of Genesis 41)

when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.

Genesis 41:19   (Read all of Genesis 41)

After them, seven other cows came up-scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:20   (Read all of Genesis 41)

The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

Genesis 41:22   (Read all of Genesis 41)

"In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.

Genesis 41:23   (Read all of Genesis 41)

After them, seven other heads sprouted-withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.

Genesis 41:24   (Read all of Genesis 41)

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me."

Genesis 41:26   (Read all of Genesis 41)

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream.

Genesis 41:27   (Read all of Genesis 41)

The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.

Genesis 41:29   (Read all of Genesis 41)

Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

Genesis 41:30   (Read all of Genesis 41)

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.

Genesis 41:34   (Read all of Genesis 41)

Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Genesis 41:36   (Read all of Genesis 41)

This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine."

Genesis 41:47   (Read all of Genesis 41)

During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully.

Genesis 41:48   (Read all of Genesis 41)

Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

Genesis 41:53   (Read all of Genesis 41)

The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,

Genesis 41:54   (Read all of Genesis 41)

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

Genesis 46:27   (Read all of Genesis 46)

With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.

Genesis 47:28   (Read all of Genesis 47)

Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

Genesis 50:3   (Read all of Genesis 50)

taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Genesis 50:10   (Read all of Genesis 50)

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.