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1 After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,
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After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,
2 Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
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and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass.
3 Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:
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Then seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
4 And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.
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The ugly and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.
5 He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:
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Then he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.
6 Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,
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Then seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them.
7 And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest:
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The thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.
8 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.
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In the morning his spirit was troubled; so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
9 Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:
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Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "I remember my faults today.
10 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.
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Once Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard.
11 Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
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We dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own meaning.
12 There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,
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A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each according to his dream.
13 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.
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As he interpreted to us, so it turned out; I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."
14 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.
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Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was hurriedly brought out of the dungeon. When he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
15 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:
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
16 Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.
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Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not I; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."
17 So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Me thought I stood upon the bank of the river,
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile;
18 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.
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and seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.
19 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:
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Then seven other cows came up after them, poor, very ugly, and thin. Never had I seen such ugly ones in all the land of Egypt.
20 And they devoured and consumed the former,
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The thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows,
21 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,
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but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had done so, for they were still as ugly as before. Then I awoke.
22 And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair.
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I fell asleep a second time and I saw in my dream seven ears of grain, full and good, growing on one stalk,
23 Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk:
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and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouting after them;
24 And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.
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and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. But when I told it to the magicians, there was no one who could explain it to me."
25 Joseph answered: The king’s dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.
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Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Pharaoh's dreams are one and the same; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.
27 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:
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The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, as are the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind. They are seven years of famine.
28 Which shall be fulfilled in this order.
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It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
29 Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt:
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There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
30 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,
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After them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land.
31 And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.
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The plenty will no longer be known in the land because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very grievous.
32 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.
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And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.
33 Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt:
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Now therefore let Pharaoh select a man who is discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34 That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years,
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Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land, and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plenteous years.
35 That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up, under Pharao’s hands, and be reserved in the cities.
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Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
36 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.
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That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to befall the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."
37 The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his servants.
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The proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.
38 And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God?
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Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find anyone else like this—one in whom is the spirit of God?"
39 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?
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So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.
40 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.
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You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you."
41 And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt.
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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
42 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.
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Removing his signet ring from his hand, Pharaoh put it on Joseph's hand; he arrayed him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain around his neck.
43 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.
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He had him ride in the chariot of his second-in-command; and they cried out in front of him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
44 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.
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Moreover Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
45 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.
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Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as his wife. Thus Joseph gained authority over the land of Egypt.
46 (Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao), and he went round all the countries of Egypt.
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Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt.
47 And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.
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During the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.
48 And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.
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He gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the food from the fields around it.
49 And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.
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So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it; it was beyond measure.
50 And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.
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Before the years of famine came, Joseph had two sons, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
51 And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father’s house.
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Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."
52 And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.
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The second he named Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortunes."
53 Now when the seven years of plenty that had been in Egypt were passed:
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The seven years of plenty that prevailed in the land of Egypt came to an end;
54 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.
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and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every country, but throughout the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 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.
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When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do."
56 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.
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And since the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
57 And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
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Moreover, all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine became severe throughout the world.
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