Genesis 41:21 Parallel Translations

Even though they had eaten them, no one could tell they had eaten them. They looked just as sick as before. Then I woke up.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

ASV:

and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

BBE:

And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

DBY:

and they came into their belly, and it could not be known that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke.

ERV:

and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

JPS:

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning. So I awoke.

WBS:

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

WEB:

and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

YLT:

and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance is bad as at the commencement; and I awake.

Genesis 41:21 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 41:20 and the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

Genesis 41:22 "I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk; (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

41:9-32 God's time for the enlargement of his people is the fittest time. If the chief butler had got Joseph to be released from prison, it is probable he would have gone back to the land of the Hebrews. Then he had neither been so blessed himself, nor such a blessing to his family, as afterwards he proved. Joseph, when introduced to Pharaoh, gives honour to God. Pharaoh had dreamed that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones, and the lean ones, come out of the river. Egypt has no rain, but the plenty of the year depends upon the overflowing of the river Nile. See how many ways Providence has of dispensing its gifts; yet our dependence is still the same upon the First Cause, who makes every creature what it is to us, be it rain or river. See to what changes the comforts of this life are subject. We cannot be sure that to-morrow shall be as this day, or next year as this. We must learn how to want, as well as how to abound. Mark the goodness of God in sending the seven years of plenty before those of famine, that provision might be made. The produce of the earth is sometimes more, and sometimes less; yet, take one with another, he that gathers much, has nothing over; and he that gathers little, has no lack, Ex 16:18. And see the perishing nature of our worldly enjoyments. The great harvests of the years of plenty were quite lost, and swallowed up in the years of famine; and that which seemed very much, yet did but just serve to keep the people alive. There is bread which lasts to eternal life, which it is worth while to labour for. They that make the things of this world their good things, will find little pleasure in remembering that they have received them.

CONC:

Appearance Awake Awoke Bad Beginning Belly Commencement Couldn't Cows Detected Devoured Eaten Fat Favored Gaunt Ill Ill-favored Ill-favoured Inside Midst Seemed Sleep Ugly Woke Yet

Appearance Ate Awake Awoke Bad Beginning Belly Commencement Couldn't Cows Detected Devoured Eaten Fat Favored Gaunt Ill Ill-Favored Ill-Favoured Inside Midst Seemed Sleep Ugly

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