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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted--thin and scorched by the east wind. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I am reminded of my shortcomings. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"I cannot do it," Joseph replied to Pharaoh, "but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19After them, seven other cows came up--scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23After them, seven other heads sprouted--withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine." |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38So Pharaoh asked them, "Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?" |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you." |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt." |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command, and people shouted before him, "Make way!" Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt." |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout Egypt. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, "It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household." |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52The second son he named Ephraim and said, "It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering." |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end, |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph and do what he tells you." |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt. |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere. |
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