The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
Parallel translations
- KJV The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
- BSB The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
- NKJV The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years; the dreams are one.
- NASB The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one and the same.
- NLT The seven healthy cows and the seven healthy heads of grain both represent seven years of prosperity.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Gen 41:2Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
- Gen 41:47In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.
- 1 Jn 5:7For there are three who testify:
- Gen 41:53The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
- Exod 12:11This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
- 1 Cor 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
- Gen 41:29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Gen 41:5He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
- Gen 40:18Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
- Gen 40:12Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
- Gen 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Exod 26:6You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a unit.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
How Genesis 41:26 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.