Gen 41
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And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold,
he stood by the river.
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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed;
and they fed in the reed-grass.
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And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and
lean-fleshed, and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
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And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favored and fat
kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
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And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon
one stalk, rank and good.
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And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and,
behold, it was a dream.
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And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called
for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them
his dream; but there was none that could interpret them to Pharaoh.
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Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
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Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain
of the guard, me and the chief baker:
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and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the
interpretation of his dream.
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And there was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard;
and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his
dream he did interpret.
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And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored to mine office,
and him he hanged.
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Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon:
and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in to Pharaoh.
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret
it: and I have heard say of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.
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And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer
of peace.
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And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river:
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and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored:
and they fed in the reed-grass:
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and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed,
such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
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and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
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and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but
they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
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And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good:
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and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind, sprung
up after them:
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and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it to the magicians;
but there was none that could declare it to me.
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And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he
has declared to Pharaoh.
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The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the
dream is one.
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And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and
also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of
famine.
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That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has showed
to Pharaoh.
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Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
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and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be
forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
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and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows;
for it shall be very grievous.
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And for that the dream was doubled to Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established
by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
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Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land
of Egypt.
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Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the
fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
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And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under
the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
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And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which
shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
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And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
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And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the
spirit of God is?
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that as God has showed you all of this, there is
none so discreet and wise as you:
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you shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all my people be ruled:
only in the throne will I be greater than you.
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
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And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph`s hand,
and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
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and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before
him, Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his
hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
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And Pharaoh called Joseph`s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath,
the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
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And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph
went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
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And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
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And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt,
and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every
city, laid he up in the same.
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And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering;
for it was without number.
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And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the
daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bare to him.
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And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, [said he], God has made
me forget all my toil, and all my father`s house.
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And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God has made me fruitful in the
land of my affliction.
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And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
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And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there
was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
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And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread:
and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.
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And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses,
and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
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And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore
in all the earth.