Genesis 41
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1And at the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and he stood by the river. 2And there came up out of the river seven well favored cows and fat fleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 3And then seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean fleshed; and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river. 4And the ill-favored and lean fleshed cows ate up the seven well favored and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke. 5And he slept (again) and dreamed a second dream: and seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, full and good. 6And, then, seven thin and blighted ears with the east wind sprung up after them. 7And the seven thin ears devoured the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

8And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men: and Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them for Pharaoh. 9Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, and said, “I do remember my faults this day: 10Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in prison in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker: 11And we (each) dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 12And there was there with us 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. 13And it came to pass just as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored to my office, and him he hanged.”

14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved him, and changed his raiment, and came in to Pharaoh. 15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard it said of you, that you can understand a dream to interpret it.” 16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” 17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream, I stood upon the bank of the river: 18And there came up out of the river seven cows, fat fleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow: 19And then seven other cows 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: 20And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows: 21And when they had eaten them up, it could not be told that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as before. Then I awoke. 22And I saw in my (second) dream, and seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good: 23And, (then), seven withered, thin, and blighted ears, with the east wind, sprung up after them: 24And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this to the magicians; but there was none that could interpret it for me.”

25And Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do. 26The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 27And the seven thin and ill-favored cows that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blighted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 28This is the thing which I have revealed to Pharaoh: What God is about to do He shows to Pharaoh. 29There shall come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: 30And then there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the abundance shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 31And the plenty shall not be known in the land because of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. 32And for that reason the dream was shown to Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 33Now therefore let Pharaoh seek out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them store food in the cities. 36And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land does not perish from the famine.”

37And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 38And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?” 39And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are: 40You shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than you.” 41And Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt”. 42And Pharaoh took his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 43And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, “Bow the knee”: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. 44And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” 45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name “Zaphenath-paneah”; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. 46And 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. 47And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly. 48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same. 49And Joseph gathered grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he ceased counting; for it was without number.

50And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, bore to him. 51And Joseph called the name of his firstborn Manasseh: “For God”, said he, “has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house”. 52And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

53And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. 54And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the famine was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was food. 55And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for food: and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he tells you to do, you do”. 56And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57And all other countries came to Egypt to Joseph for to buy grain; because the famine was so severe in all lands.

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