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Joseph Interprets the King’s Dreams

41After two years had passed, the king of Egypt dreamed that he was standing by the Nile River,H7093H3117H8141H6547H2492H5975H2975
2when seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the river and began to feed on the grass.H5927H2975H7651H3303H4758H6510H1277H1320H7462H260
3Then seven other cows came up; they were thin and bony. They came and stood by the other cows on the riverbank,H7651H312H6510H5927H310H2975H7451H4758H1851H1320H5975H681H6510H8193H2975
4and the thin cows ate up the fat cows. Then the king woke up.H7451H4758H1851H1320H6510H398H7651H3303H4758H1277H6510H6547H3364
5He fell asleep again and had another dream. Seven heads of grain, full and ripe, were growing on one stalk.H3462H2492H8145H7651H7641H5927H259H7070H1277H2896
6Then seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,H7651H1851H7641H7710H6921H6779H310
7and the thin heads of grain swallowed the full ones. The king woke up and realized that he had been dreaming.H1851H7641H1104H7651H1277H4392H7641H6547H3364H2472
8In the morning he was worried, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. He told them his dreams, but no one could explain them to him.H1242H7307H6470H7971H7121H2748H4714H2450H6547H5608H2472H6622H6547
9Then the wine steward said to the king, "I must confess today that I have done wrong.H1696H8269H8248H6547H559H2142H2399H3117
10You were angry with the chief baker and me, and you put us in prison in the house of the captain of the guard.H6547H7107H5650H5414H4929H8269H2876H1004H8269H644
11One night each of us had a dream, and the dreams had different meanings.H2492H2472H259H3915H2492H376H6623H2472
12A young Hebrew was there with us, a slave of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us.H5288H5680H5650H8269H2876H5608H6622H2472H376H2472H6622
13Things turned out just as he said: you restored me to my position, but you executed the baker."H6622H7725H3653H8518
14The king sent for Joseph, and he was immediately brought from the prison. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came into the king's presence.H6547H7971H7121H3130H7323H953H1548H2498H8071H935H6547
15The king said to him, "I have had a dream, and no one can explain it. I have been told that you can interpret dreams."H6547H559H3130H2492H2472H6622H8085H559H8085H2472H6622
16Joseph answered, "I cannot, Your Majesty, but God will give a favorable interpretation."H3130H6030H6547H559H1107H430H6030H6547H6030H7965
17The king said, "I dreamed that I was standing on the bank of the Nile,H6547H1696H3130H2472H5975H8193H2975
18when seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the river and began feeding on the grass.H5927H2975H7651H6510H1277H1320H3303H8389H7462H260
19Then seven other cows came up which were thin and bony. They were the poorest cows I have ever seen anywhere in Egypt.H7651H312H6510H5927H310H1803H3966H7451H8389H7534H1320H2007H3808H7200H776H4714H7455
20The thin cows ate up the fat ones,H7534H7451H6510H398H7223H7651H1277H6510
21but no one would have known it, because they looked just as bad as before. Then I woke up.H935H7130H3045H935H7130H4758H7451H8462H3364
22I also dreamed that I saw seven heads of grain which were full and ripe, growing on one stalk.H7200H2472H7651H7641H5927H259H7070H4392H2896
23Then seven heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,H7651H7641H6798H1851H7710H6921H6779H310
24and the thin heads of grain swallowed the full ones. I told the dreams to the magicians, but none of them could explain them to me."H1851H7641H1104H7651H2896H7641H559H2748H5046
25Joseph said to the king, "The two dreams mean the same thing; God has told you what he is going to do.H3130H559H6547H2472H6547H259H430H5046H6547H6213
26The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven full heads of grain are also seven years; they have the same meaning.H7651H2896H6510H7651H8141H7651H2896H7641H7651H8141H2472H259
27The seven thin cows which came up later and the seven thin heads of grain scorched by the desert wind are seven years of famine.H7651H7534H7451H6510H5927H310H7651H8141H7651H7386H7641H7710H6921H7651H8141H7458
28It is just as I told you - God has shown you what he is going to do.H1697H1696H6547H430H6213H7200H6547
29There will be seven years of great plenty in all the land of Egypt.H935H7651H8141H1419H7647H776H4714
30After that, there will be seven years of famine, and all the good years will be forgotten, because the famine will ruin the country.H6965H310H7651H8141H7458H7647H7911H776H4714H7458H3615H776
31The time of plenty will be entirely forgotten, because the famine which follows will be so terrible.H7647H3045H776H6440H7458H310H3651H3966H3515
32The repetition of your dream means that the matter is fixed by God and that he will make it happen in the near future.H2472H8138H6547H6471H1697H3559H5973H430H430H4116H6213
33"Now you should choose some man with wisdom and insight and put him in charge of the country.H6547H7200H376H995H2450H7896H776H4714
34You must also appoint other officials and take a fifth of the crops during the seven years of plenty.H6547H6213H6485H6496H776H2567H776H4714H7651H7647H8141
35Order them to collect all the food during the good years that are coming, and give them authority to store up grain in the cities and guard it.H6908H400H2896H8141H935H6651H1250H3027H6547H8104H400H5892
36The food will be a reserve supply for the country during the seven years of famine which are going to come on Egypt. In this way the people will not starve."H400H6487H776H7651H8141H7458H776H4714H776H3772H7458

Joseph Is Made Governor over Egypt

37The king and his officials approved this plan,H1697H3190H5869H6547H5869H5650
38and he said to them, "We will never find a better man than Joseph, a man who has God's spirit in him."H6547H559H5650H4672H2088H376H834H7307H430
39The king said to Joseph, "God has shown you all this, so it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else.H6547H559H3130H310H430H3045H995H2450
40I will put you in charge of my country, and all my people will obey your orders. Your authority will be second only to mine.H1961H1004H6310H5971H5401H3678H1431
41I now appoint you governor over all Egypt."H6547H559H3130H7200H5414H776H4714
42The king removed from his finger the ring engraved with the royal seal and put it on Joseph's finger. He put a fine linen robe on him, and placed a gold chain around his neck.H6547H5493H2885H3027H5414H3130H3027H3847H899H8336H7760H2091H7242H6677
43He gave him the second royal chariot to ride in, and his guard of honor went ahead of him and cried out, "Make way! Make way!" And so Joseph was appointed governor over all Egypt.H7392H4932H4818H7121H6440H86H5414H776H4714
44The king said to him, "I am the king - and no one in all Egypt shall so much as lift a hand or a foot without your permission."H6547H559H3130H6547H1107H376H7311H3027H7272H776H4714
45He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah, and he gave him a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis.H6547H7121H3130H8034H6847H5414H802H621H1323H6319H3548H204H3130H3318H776H4714
46Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve the king of Egypt. He left the king's court and traveled all over the land.H3130H7970H8141H1121H5975H6440H6547H4428H4714H3130H3318H6440H6547H5674H776H4714
47During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundant crops,H7651H7647H8141H776H6213H7062
48all of which Joseph collected and stored in the cities. In each city he stored the food from the fields around it.H6908H400H7651H8141H776H4714H5414H400H5892H400H7704H5439H5892H5414H8432
49There was so much grain that Joseph stopped measuring it - it was like the sand of the sea.H3130H6651H1250H2344H3220H3966H7235H2308H5608H369H4557
50Before the years of famine came, Joseph had two sons by Asenath.H3130H3205H8147H1121H8141H7458H935H621H1323H6319H3548H204H3205
51He said, "God has made me forget all my sufferings and all my father's family"; so he named his first son Manasseh.H3130H7121H8034H1060H4519H430H5382H5999H1H1004
52He also said, "God has given me children in the land of my trouble"; so he named his second son Ephraim.H8034H8145H7121H669H430H6509H776H6040
53The seven years of plenty that the land of Egypt had enjoyed came to an end,H7651H8141H7647H776H4714H3615
54and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every other country, but there was food throughout Egypt.H7651H8141H7458H2490H935H3130H559H7458H776H776H4714H3899
55When the Egyptians began to be hungry, they cried out to the king for food. So he ordered them to go to Joseph and do what he told them.H776H4714H7456H5971H6817H6547H3899H6547H559H4714H3212H3130H559H6213
56The famine grew worse and spread over the whole country, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians.H7458H6440H776H3130H6605H7666H4714H7458H2388H776H4714
57People came to Egypt from all over the world to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.H776H935H4714H3130H7666H7458H2388H776


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