Genesis 41:1-9 ▼

1 After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,

2 and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.

3 Then seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

4 The ugly and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.

5 Then he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.

6 Then seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them.

7 The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.

8 In the morning his spirit was troubled; so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my faults today.