Genesis 41

12 Ref And there was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.

13 Ref And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

14 Ref Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

15 Ref And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.

16 Ref And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

17 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river:

18 Ref and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass:

19 and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

20 and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

21 Ref 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.

22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good:

23 Ref and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, `and' blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

24 Ref and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

25 Ref And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh.

26 Ref The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

27 Ref And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.

28 Ref That is the thing which I spake unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do he hath showed unto Pharaoh.

29 Ref Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

30 Ref and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

31 Ref and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.

32 Ref And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

33 Ref Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

34 Ref Let Pharaoh do `this', and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

35 Ref And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

36 Ref And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

37 Ref And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

38 Ref And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?

39 Ref And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou:

40 Ref thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

41 Ref And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

42 Ref And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

43 Ref and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt.

44 Ref And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.

45 Ref And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

46 Ref And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

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