⁵⁴ Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

¹¹ Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

¹⁶ And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

¹¹ And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

³⁰ 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;

¹³ Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

¹ And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

⁵ And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

⁶ Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

² And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

²⁷ 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.

⁶ And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

⁷ And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

³ And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

⁴ And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.