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As he was standing by the Nile, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt! <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent seven years of famine. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>This is just what I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Pharaoh should do this – he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are! <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>“See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph’s. He clothed him with fine linen clothes and put a gold chain around his neck. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, “Kneel down!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities. In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/41-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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