3 After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.

Other Translations of Genesis 41:3

King James Version

3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

English Standard Version

3 And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

The Message

3 Then seven other cows, all skin and bones, came up out of the river after them and stood by them on the bank of the Nile.

New King James Version

3 Then behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ugly and gaunt, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.

New Living Translation

3 Then he saw seven more cows come up behind them from the Nile, but these were scrawny and thin. These cows stood beside the fat cows on the riverbank.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 41:3

Commentary on Genesis 41:1-8

(Read Genesis 41:1-8)

The means of Joseph's being freed from prison were Pharaoh's dreams, as here related. Now that God no longer speaks to us in that way, it is no matter how little we either heed dreams, or tell them. The telling of foolish dreams can make no better than foolish talk. But these dreams showed that they were sent of God; when he awoke, Pharaoh's spirit was troubled.