Genesis 41:32
Good News Translation
The repetition of your dream means that the matter is fixed by God and that he will make it happen in the near future.

New Revised Standard Version
And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.

Contemporary English Version
God has given you two dreams to let you know that he has definitely decided to do this and that he will do it soon.

New American Bible
That Pharaoh had the same dream twice means that the matter has been confirmed by God and that God will soon bring it about.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.

doubled.

Genesis 37:7,9 I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf. . . .

Job 33:14,15 God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:1 Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.

it is because.

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Isaiah 14:24-27 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed, . . .

Isaiah 46:10,11 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: . . .

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

established by.

Isaiah 30:33 For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.

Matthew 25:34,41 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . .

Mark 10:40 But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

Revelation 9:15 And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men.

Context
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams
31And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty. 32And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.33Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt:…
Cross References
Genesis 41:25
Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

Genesis 41:28
Which shall be fulfilled in this order.

Genesis 41:31
And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.

Daniel 2:45
According as thou sawest, that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and broke in pieces the clay and the iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God hath shewn the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof is faithful.

Genesis 41:31
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