Genesis 41
1 And it cometh to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and lo, he is standing by the River,
After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,
2 and lo, from the River coming up are seven kine, of fair appearance, and fat [in] flesh, and they feed among the reeds;
Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
3 and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them out of the River, of bad appearance, and lean [in] flesh, and they stand near the kine on the edge of the River,
Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and leanfleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:
4 and the kine of bad appearance and lean [in] flesh eat up the seven kine of fair appearance, and fat — and Pharaoh awaketh.
And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.
5 And he sleepeth, and dreameth a second time, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good,
He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:
6 and lo, seven ears, thin, and blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,
7 and the thin ears swallow the seven fat and full ears — and Pharaoh awaketh, and lo, a dream.
And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest:
8 And it cometh to pass in the morning, that his spirit is moved, and he sendeth and calleth all the scribes of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh recounteth to them his dream, and there is no interpreter of them to Pharaoh.
And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could interpret it.
9 And the chief of the butlers speaketh with Pharaoh, saying, 'My sin I mention this day:
Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:
10 Pharaoh hath been wroth against his servants, and giveth me into charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;
The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers:
11 and we dream a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we have dreamed.
Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
12 And there [is] with us a youth, a Hebrew, servant to the chief of the executioners, and we recount to him, and he interpreteth to us our dreams, [to] each according to his dream hath he interpreted,
There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,
13 and it cometh to pass, as he hath interpreted to us so it hath been, me he put back on my station, and him he hanged.'
And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.
14 And Pharaoh sendeth and calleth Joseph, and they cause him to run out of the pit, and he shaveth, and changeth his garments, and cometh in unto Pharaoh.
Forthwith at the king’s command, Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him, and changing his apparel, brought him in to him.
15 And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I — I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,'
And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them.
16 and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, 'Without me — God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.'
Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.
17 And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: 'In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River,
So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,
18 and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat [in] flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds;
And seven kine came up out of the river exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.
19 and lo, seven other kine 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.
And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:
20 'And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,
And they devoured and consumed the former,
21 and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance [is] bad as at the commencement; and I awake.
And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,
22 'And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good;
And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, full and very fair.
23 and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stock:
24 and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.'
And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.
25 And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, 'The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh;
Joseph answered: The king’s dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.
26 the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;
The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.
27 and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;
And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come:
28 this [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.
Which shall be fulfilled in this order:
29 'Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,
Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of 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 hath finished the land,
After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,
31 and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it [is] very grievous.
And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.
32 'And because of the repeating of the dream unto Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hastening to do it.
And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.
33 'And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;
Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler 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,
That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years,
35 and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh — food in the cities; and they have kept [it],
That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up under Pharao’s hands and be reserved in the cities.
36 and the food hath 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 it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity.
37 And the thing is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants,
The counsel pleased Pharao and all his servants.
38 and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, 'Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God [is]?'
And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God?
39 and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;
He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?
40 thou — thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.'
Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above thee.
41 And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.'
And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him [with] garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,
And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck.
43 and causeth him to ride in the second chariot which he hath, and they proclaim before him, 'Bow the knee!' and — to put him over all the land of Egypt.
And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee a man doth not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt;'
And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao; without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.
And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue, The saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt:
46 And Joseph [is] a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goeth out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passeth over through all the land of Egypt;
(Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao) and he went round all the countries of Egypt.
47 and the land maketh in the seven years of plenty by handfuls.
And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.
48 And he gathereth all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and putteth food in the cities; the food of the field which [is] round about [each] city hath he put in its midst;
And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.
49 and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number.
And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.
50 And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine cometh, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him,
And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopolis bore unto him.
51 and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;'
And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father’s house.
52 and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: 'for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.'
And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.
53 And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt,
Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past:
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 hath been bread;
The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.
55 and all the land of Egypt is famished, and the people crieth unto Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh saith to all the Egyptians, 'Go unto Joseph; that which he saith to you — do.'
And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you.
56 And the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph openeth all [places] which have [corn] in them, and selleth to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt,
And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also.
57 and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.
And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
