Genesis 41:5 He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

English Standard Version
And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.

New American Standard Bible
He fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

King James Bible
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

International Standard Version
After he had fallen back to sleep, he had a second dream, in which seven ears of plump, fruit-filled grain grew up on a single stalk.

American Standard Version
And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:

Darby Bible Translation
And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven ears of corn grew up on one stalk, fat and good.

Young's Literal Translation
And he sleepeth, and dreameth a second time, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

41:1-8 The means of Joseph's being freed from prison were Pharaoh's dreams, as here related. Now that God no longer speaks to us in that way, it is no matter how little we either heed dreams, or tell them. The telling of foolish dreams can make no better than foolish talk. But these dreams showed that they were sent of God; when he awoke, Pharaoh's spirit was troubled.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 41

Ge 41:1-24. Pharaoh's Dream.

1. at the end of two full years—It is not certain whether these years are reckoned from the beginning of Joseph's imprisonment, or from the events described in the preceding chapter—most likely the latter. What a long time for Joseph to experience the sickness of hope deferred! But the time of his enlargement came when he had sufficiently learned the lessons of God designed for him; and the plans of Providence were matured.

Pharaoh dreamed—"Pharaoh," from an Egyptian word Phre, signifying the "sun," was the official title of the kings of that country. The prince, who occupied the throne of Egypt, was Aphophis, one of the Memphite kings, whose capital was On or Heliopolis, and who is universally acknowledged to have been a patriot king. Between the arrival of Abraham and the appearance of Joseph in that country, somewhat more than two centuries had elapsed. Kings sleep and dream, as well as their subjects. And this Pharaoh had two dreams in one night so singular and so similar, so distinct and so apparently significant, so coherent and vividly impressed on his memory, that his spirit was troubled.