^{12 Ref} And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

^{13 Ref} And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.

^{14 Ref} Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

^{15 Ref} And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

^{16 Ref} Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh.

¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

^{18 Ref} And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

¹⁹ Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

²⁰ And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

^{21 Ref} And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

²² And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

^{23 Ref} And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

^{24 Ref} And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

^{25 Ref} Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

^{26 Ref} The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

^{27 Ref} The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

^{28 Ref} As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.

^{29 Ref} Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

^{30 Ref} And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

^{31 Ref} And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

^{32 Ref} And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.

^{33 Ref} And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.

^{34 Ref} Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.

^{35 Ref} And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

^{36 Ref} And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

^{37 Ref} And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.

^{38 Ref} Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?

^{39 Ref} And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:

^{40 Ref} You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.

^{41 Ref} And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.

^{42 Ref} Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;

^{43 Ref} And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

^{44 Ref} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

^{45 Ref} And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.

^{46 Ref} Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.