Genesis 41

12 Ref And there `is' with us a youth, a Hebrew, servant to the chief of the executioners, and we recount to him, and he interpreteth to us our dreams, `to' each according to his dream hath he interpreted,

13 Ref and it cometh to pass, as he hath interpreted to us so it hath been, me he put back on my station, and him he hanged.'

14 Ref And Pharaoh sendeth and calleth Joseph, and they cause him to run out of the pit, and he shaveth, and changeth his garments, and cometh in unto Pharaoh.

15 Ref And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I -- I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,'

16 Ref and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, `Without me -- God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.'

17 And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: `In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River,

18 Ref and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat `in' flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds;

19 and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean `in' flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.

20 `And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,

21 Ref and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance `is' bad as at the commencement; and I awake.

22 `And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good;

23 Ref and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;

24 Ref and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.'

25 Ref And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, `The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to 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 thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;

28 Ref this `is' the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.

29 Ref `Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,

30 Ref and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land,

31 Ref and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it `is' very grievous.

32 Ref `And because of the repeating of the dream unto Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hastening to do it.

33 Ref `And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;

34 Ref let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty,

35 Ref and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh -- food in the cities; and they have kept `it',

36 Ref and the food hath been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.'

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

38 Ref and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God `is'?'

39 Ref and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

40 Ref thou -- thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.'

41 Ref And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.'

42 Ref And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him `with' garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

43 Ref and causeth him to ride in the second chariot which he hath, and they proclaim before him, `Bow the knee!' and -- to put him over all the land of Egypt.

44 Ref And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `I `am' Pharaoh, and without thee a man doth not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt;'

45 Ref and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.

46 Ref And Joseph `is' a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goeth out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passeth over through all the land of Egypt;

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