seven

And I saw in my dreame, and behold, seuen eares came vp in one stalke, full and good.

And behold, seuen eares withered, thin & blasted with the East wind, sprung vp after them.

1611 marginal noteOr, small.

And the thin eares deuoured the seuen good eares: and I told this vnto the magicians, but there was none that could declare it to me.

The seuen good kine are seuen yeeres: and the seuen good eares are seuen yeeres: the dreame is one.

And the seuen thin and ill fauoured kine that came vp after them, are seuen yeeres: and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East wind, shall bee seuen yeeres of famine.

Behold, there come seuen yeeres of great plentie, throughout all the land of Egypt.

And there shall arise after them, seuen yeeres of famine, and all the plentie shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt: and the famine shall consume the land.

Let Pharaoh doe this, and let him appoint officers ouer the land, & take vp the fift part of the land of Egypt, in the seuen plenteous yeeres.

1611 marginal noteOr, ouerseers.

And that food shall be for store to the land, against the seuen yeeres of famine, which shall bee in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.

1611 marginal noteHeb. be not cut off.

And in the seuen plenteous yeres the earth brought forth by handfuls.