Génesis 41:19-29

19 Luego vi siete vacas flacas y raquíticas con aspecto enfermizo que salían después de las primeras. Jamás había visto unos animales tan lamentables en toda la tierra de Egipto.

20 Entonces esas vacas flacas y raquíticas se comieron a las siete vacas gordas,

21 pero nadie lo hubiera creído, ¡porque después seguían siendo tan flacas y raquíticas como antes! Luego me desperté.

22 »Al rato volví a quedarme dormido y tuve otro sueño. Vi también en mis sueños siete espigas llenas de grano, robustas y hermosas, que crecían de un solo tallo.

23 Después aparecieron otras siete espigas de grano, pero estaban infestadas, resecas y marchitadas por el viento oriental.

24 Entonces las espigas secas se tragaron a las siete robustas. Les conté esos sueños a los magos, pero ninguno pudo decirme lo que significan.

25 José respondió:
—Ambos sueños del faraón significan lo mismo. Dios le da a conocer de antemano al faraón lo que está por hacer.

26 Las siete vacas sanas y las siete espigas robustas representan siete años de prosperidad.

27 Las siete vacas flacas y raquíticas que salieron después, y las siete espigas resecas y marchitadas por el viento oriental representan siete años de hambre.

28 »Esto sucederá tal como lo he descrito, pues Dios ha revelado de antemano al faraón lo que está por hacer.

29 Los próximos siete años serán un período de gran prosperidad en toda la tierra de Egipto,

Génesis 41:19-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 41

In this chapter are related Pharaoh's dreams, which his magicians could not interpret, Ge 41:1-9, upon which the chief butler now remembering Joseph, recommended him to Pharaoh as an interpreter, having had an happy experience of him as such himself, Ge 41:10-13, when Joseph was sent for out of prison; and Pharaoh having related his dreams, he interpreted them of seven years of plenty, and seven years of famine, that should be in the land of Egypt, Ge 41:14-32; and having done, he gave his advice to provide in the years of plenty against the years of famine, and proposed a scheme for doing it, which was approved of by Pharaoh and his ministers, Ge 41:33-37; and Joseph himself was pitched upon as the most proper person to execute it, and was appointed chief over the kingdom next to Pharaoh, who gave him a new name and a wife upon this occasion, Ge 41:38-45; accordingly, in the years of plenty he took a tour throughout the whole land, and gathered and laid up food in vast quantities in every city, Ge 41:46-49; an account is given of two sons born to Joseph, and of their names, Ge 41:50-52; and of the seven years of famine, beginning to come on at the end of the seven years of plenty, which brought great distress on the land of Egypt, and the countries round about, who all came to Joseph to buy corn, Ge 41:53-57.