Then ¹  seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

Then ¹  seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream. ¹ 

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this ¹  to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.” ² 

The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

the priest is to examine the infection, ¹  and if ²  it appears to be deeper than the skin ³  and the hair in it is reddish yellow and thin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. ⁴  It is scall, ⁵  a disease of the head or the beard. ⁶ 

They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave ¹  them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven ¹  fat cows.

When ¹  the layer of dew had evaporated, ²  there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, ³  thin like frost on the earth.

The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent ¹  seven years of famine.

Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, ¹  and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river. ² 

Then ¹  seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows ²  as these in all the land of Egypt!

He granted their request, then struck them with a disease. ¹ 

“You are the ones who have remained ¹  with me in my trials.

and ¹  bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread ²  with oil – you are to make them using ³  fine wheat flour.

Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

whose ¹  trust ²  is in something futile, ³  whose security is a spider’s web. ⁴ 

My hand will support him, ¹  and my arm will strengthen him.

I am so starved my knees shake; ¹  I have turned into skin and bones. ²