^{16 Ref} Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

¹⁷ Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

^{18 Ref} and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,

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

²⁰ The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

^{21 Ref} and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

²² I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

^{23 Ref} and, behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

^{24 Ref} The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."

^{25 Ref} Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.