Pharaohs dream of the cows Genesis 41.1-4   At the end of two full years, Pharʹaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile River. 2  And there, coming up from the river, were seven fine-looking, fat cows, and they were feeding on the Nile grass. 3  There were seven other cows that looked ugly and thin coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood alongside the fat cows by the bank of the Nile. 4  Then the ugly, thin cows began to eat up the seven fine-looking, fat cows. At this Pharʹaoh woke up.