Genesis 41
1 After two years, Pharaoh saw a dream. He thought himself to be standing above a river,
And it comes to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and behold, he is standing by the River,
2 from which ascended seven cows, exceedingly beautiful and stout. And they pastured in marshy places.
and behold, from the River coming up are seven cows, of beautiful appearance, and fat [in] flesh, and they feed among the reeds;
3 Likewise, another seven emerged from the river, filthy and thoroughly emaciated. And they pastured on the same bank of the river, in green places.
and behold, seven other cows are coming up after them out of the River, of bad appearance, and lean [in] flesh, and they stand near the cows on the edge of the River,
4 And they devoured those whose appearance and condition of body was so wonderful. Pharaoh, having been awakened,
and the cows of bad appearance and lean [in] flesh eat up the seven cows of beautiful appearance, and fat—and Pharaoh awakens.
5 slept again, and he saw another dream. Seven ears of grain sprung up on one stalk, full and well-formed.
And he sleeps, and dreams a second time, and behold, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good,
6 Likewise, other ears of grain, of the same number, rose up, thin and struck with blight,
and behold, seven ears, thin, and blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
7 devouring all the beauty of the first. Pharaoh, when he awakened after his rest,
and the thin ears swallow the seven fat and full ears—and Pharaoh awakens, and behold, a dream.
8 and when morning arrived, being terrified with fear, sent to all the interpreters of Egypt and to all of the wise men. And when they were summoned, he explained to them his dream; but there was no one who could interpret it.
And it comes to pass in the morning, that his spirit is moved, and he sends and calls all the enchanters of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh recounts to them his dream, and there is no interpreter of them to Pharaoh.
9 Then at last the chief cupbearer, remembering, said, “I confess my sin.
And the chief of the butlers speaks with Pharaoh, saying, “I mention my sin this day:
10 The king, being angry with his servants, ordered me and the chief miller of grain to be forced into the prison of the leader of the military.
Pharaoh has been angry against his servants, and puts me in confinement in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;
11 There, in one night, both of us saw a dream presaging the future.
and we dream a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we have dreamed.
12 In that place, there was a Hebrew, a servant of the same commander of the military, to whom we explained our dreams.
And there [is] with us a youth, a Hebrew, servant to the chief of the executioners, and we recount to him, and he interprets to us our dreams, [to] each according to his dream has he interpreted,
13 Whatever we heard was proven afterwards by the event of the matter. For I was restored to my office, and he was suspended on a cross.”
and it comes to pass, as he has interpreted to us so it has been, me he put back on my station, and him he hanged.”
14 Immediately, by the king’s authority, Joseph was led out of prison, and they shaved him. And changing his apparel, they presented him to him.
And Pharaoh sends and calls Joseph, and they cause him to run out of the pit, and he shaves, and changes his garments, and comes to Pharaoh.
15 And he said to him, “I have seen dreams, and there is no one who can unfold them. I have heard that you are very wise at interpreting these.”
And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it, and I have heard concerning you, saying, You understand a dream to interpret it,”
16 Joseph responded, “Apart from me, God will respond favorably to Pharaoh.”
and Joseph answers Pharaoh, saying, “Without me—God answers Pharaoh with peace.”
17 Therefore, Pharaoh explained what he had seen: “I thought myself to be standing on the bank of a river,
And Pharaoh speaks to Joseph: “In my dream, behold, I am standing by the edge of the River,
18 and seven cows climbed up from the river, exceedingly beautiful and full of flesh. And they grazed in a pasture of a marshy greenery.
and behold, out of the River coming up are seven cows, fat [in] flesh, and of beautiful form, and they feed among the reeds;
19 And behold, there followed after these, another seven cows, with such deformity and emaciation as I had never seen in the land of Egypt.
and behold, seven other cows are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean [in] flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.
20 These devoured and consumed the first,
And the lean and the bad cows eat up the first seven fat cows,
21 giving no indication of being full. But they remained in the same state of emaciation and squalor. Awakening, but being weighed down into sleep again,
and they come in to their midst, and it has not been known that they have come in to their midst, and their appearance [is] bad as at the commencement; and I awake.
22 I saw a dream. Seven ears of grain sprang up on one stalk, full and very beautiful.
And I see in my dream, and behold, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good;
23 Likewise, another seven, thin and struck with blight, rose up from the stalk.
and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
24 And they devoured the beauty of the first. I explained this dream to the interpreters, and there is no one who can unfold it.”
and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell [it] to the enchanters, and there is none declaring [it] to me.”
25 Joseph responded: “The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.
And Joseph says to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he has declared to Pharaoh;
26 The seven beautiful cows, and the seven full ears of grain, are seven years of abundance. And so the force of the dreams is understood to be the same.
the seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;
27 Likewise, the seven thin and emaciated cows, which ascended after them, and the seven thin ears of grain, which were struck with the burning wind, are seven approaching years of famine.
and the seven thin and bad cows which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;
28 These will be fulfilled in this order.
this [is] the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is doing.
29 Behold, there will arrive seven years of great fertility throughout the entire land of Egypt.
Behold, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,
30 After this, there will follow another seven years, of such great barrenness that all the former abundance will be delivered into oblivion. For the famine will consume all the land,
and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine has finished the land,
31 and the greatness of this destitution will cause the greatness of the abundance to be lost.
and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterward, for it [is] very grievous.
32 Now, as to what you saw the second time, it is a dream pertaining to the same thing. It is an indication of its firmness, because the word of God shall be done, and it shall be completed swiftly.
And because of the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hurrying to do it.
33 Now therefore, let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and place him over the land of Egypt,
And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;
34 so that he may appoint overseers throughout all the regions. And let a fifth part of the fruits, throughout the seven fertile years
let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty,
35 that now have already begun to occur, be gathered into storehouses. And let all the grain be stored away, under the power of Pharaoh, and let it be kept in the cities.
and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up grain under the hand of Pharaoh—food in the cities; and they have kept [it],
36 And let it be prepared for the future famine of seven years, which will oppress Egypt, and then the land will not be consumed by destitution.”
and the food has been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.”
37 The counsel pleased Pharaoh and all his ministers.
And the thing is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants,
38 And he said to them, “Would we be able to find another such man, who is full of the Spirit of God?”
and Pharaoh says to his servants, “Do we find like this, a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?”
39 Therefore, he said to Joseph: “Because God has revealed to you all that you have said, would I be able to find anyone wiser and as much like you?
And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “After God’s causing you to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as you;
40 You will be over my house, and to the authority of your mouth, all the people will show obedience. Only in one way, in the throne of the kingdom, will I go before you.”
you are over my house, and at your mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than you.”
41 And again, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have appointed you over the entire land of Egypt.”
And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.”
42 And he took the ring from his own hand, and he gave it into his hand. And he clothed him with a robe of fine linen, and he placed a necklace of gold around his neck.
And Pharaoh turns aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and puts it on the hand of Joseph, and clothes him [with] garments of fine linen, and places a chain of gold on his neck,
43 And he caused him to ascend upon his second swift chariot, with the herald proclaiming that everyone should bend their knee before him, and that they should know that he was governor over the entire land of Egypt.
and causes him to ride in the second chariot which he has, and they proclaim before him, “Bow the knee!” And [he] set him over all the land of Egypt.
44 Likewise, the king said to Joseph: “I am Pharaoh: apart from your authority, no one will move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”
And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “I [am] Pharaoh, and without you a man does not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt”;
45 And he changed his name and called him, in the Egyptian tongue: ‘Savior of the world.’ And he gave him as a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis. And so Joseph went out into the land of Egypt.
and Pharaoh calls Joseph’s name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he gives to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goes out over the land of Egypt.
46 (Now he was thirty years old when he stood in the sight of king Pharaoh.) And he traveled throughout the regions of Egypt.
And Joseph [is] a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goes out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passes over through all the land of Egypt;
47 And the fertility of the seven years arrived. And when the grain fields were reduced to sheaves, these were gathered into the storehouses of Egypt.
and the land makes in the seven years of plenty by handfuls.
48 And now all the abundance of grain was stored away in every city.
And he gathers all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and puts food in the cities; the food of the field which [is] around [each] city has he put in its midst;
49 And there was such a great abundance of wheat that it was comparable to the sands of the sea, and its bounty exceeded all measure.
and Joseph gathers grain as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until he has ceased to number, for there is no number.
50 Then, before the famine arrived, Joseph had two sons born, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore for him.
And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine comes, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, has borne to him,
51 And he called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has caused me to forget all my labors and the house of my father.”
and Joseph calls the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me to forget all my labor, and all the house of my father”;
52 Likewise, he named the second Ephraim, saying, “God has caused me to increase in the land of my poverty.”
and the name of the second he has called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
53 And so, when the seven years of fertility that occurred in Egypt had passed,
And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt,
54 the seven years of destitution, which Joseph had predicted, began to arrive. And the famine prevailed throughout the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.
and the seven years of famine begin to come, as Joseph said, and famine is in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt has been bread;
55 And being hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh, asking for provisions. And he said to them: “Go to Joseph. And do whatever he will tell you.”
and all the land of Egypt is famished, and the people cry to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh says to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; that which he says to you—do.”
56 Then the famine increased daily in all the land. And Joseph opened all of the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. For the famine had oppressed them also.
And the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph opens all [places] which have [grain] in them, and sells to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt,
57 And all the provinces came to Egypt, to buy food and to temper the misfortune of their destitution.
and all the earth has come to Egypt, to buy, to Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.
