Genesis 41
1 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,
Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;
2 and behold, from the River coming up are seven cows, of beautiful appearance, and fat [in] flesh, and they feed among the reeds;
And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.
3 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,
And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.
4 and the cows of bad appearance and lean [in] flesh eat up the seven cows of beautiful appearance, and fat—and Pharaoh awakens.
And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.
5 And he sleeps, and dreams a second time, and behold, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good,
But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.
6 and behold, seven ears, thin, and blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.
7 and the thin ears swallow the seven fat and full ears—and Pharaoh awakens, and behold, a dream.
And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.
8 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.
And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.
9 And the chief of the butlers speaks with Pharaoh, saying, “I mention my sin this day:
Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me now;
10 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;
Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and had put me in prison in the house of the captain of the army, together with the chief bread-maker;
11 and we dream a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we have dreamed.
And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.
12 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,
And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.
13 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.”
And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.
14 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.
Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.
15 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,”
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.
16 and Joseph answers Pharaoh, saying, “Without me—God answers Pharaoh with peace.”
Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh.
17 And Pharaoh speaks to Joseph: “In my dream, behold, I am standing by the edge of the River,
Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:
18 and behold, out of the River coming up are seven cows, fat [in] flesh, and of beautiful form, and they feed among the reeds;
And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;
19 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.
Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;
20 And the lean and the bad cows eat up the first seven fat cows,
And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;
21 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.
And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.
22 And I see in my dream, and behold, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good;
And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:
23 and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:
24 and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell [it] to the enchanters, and there is none declaring [it] to me.”
And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.
25 And Joseph says to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he has declared to Pharaoh;
Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 the seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;
The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.
27 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;
The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.
28 this [is] the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is doing.
As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.
29 Behold, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,
Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;
30 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,
And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;
31 and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterward, for it [is] very grievous.
And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.
32 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.
And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.
33 And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;
And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.
34 let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty,
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.
35 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],
And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.
36 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.”
And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.
37 And the thing is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants,
And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.
38 and Pharaoh says to his servants, “Do we find like this, a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?”
Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?
39 And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “After God’s causing you to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as you;
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:
40 you are over my house, and at your mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than you.”
You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.
41 And Pharaoh says to Joseph, “See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.”
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.
42 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,
Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;
43 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.
And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
44 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”;
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.
45 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.
And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.
46 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;
Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
47 and the land makes in the seven years of plenty by handfuls.
Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.
48 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;
And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.
49 and Joseph gathers grain as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until he has ceased to number, for there is no number.
So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.
50 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,
And before the time of need, Joseph had two sons, to whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, gave birth.
51 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”;
And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.
52 and the name of the second he has called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.
53 And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt,
And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.
54 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;
Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 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.”
And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.
56 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,
And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.
57 and all the earth has come to Egypt, to buy, to Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.
And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.
