1After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
2when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
3After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
4And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows.
5but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.