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1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, be­hold, he stood by the riv­er. 2 And, be­hold, there came up out of the riv­er sev­en well favoured kine and fat­fleshed; and they fed in a mead­ow. 3 And, be­hold, sev­en oth­er kine came up af­ter them out of the riv­er, ill favoured and lean­fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the riv­er. 4 And the ill favoured and lean­fleshed kine did eat up the sev­en well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 5 And he slept and dreamed the sec­ond time: and, be­hold, sev­en ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. 6 And, be­hold, sev­en thin ears and blast­ed with the east wind sprung up af­ter them. 7 And the sev­en thin ears de­voured the sev­en rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, be­hold, it was a dream. 8 And it came to pass in the morn­ing that his spir­it was trou­bled; and he sent and called for all the ma­gi­cians of Egypt, and all the wise men there­of: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could in­ter­pret them unto Pharaoh. 9 Then spake the chief but­ler unto Pharaoh, say­ing, I do re­mem­ber my faults this day: 10 Pharaoh was wroth with his ser­vants, and put me in ward in the cap­tain of the guard's house, both me and the chief bak­er: 11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man ac­cord­ing to the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of his dream. 12 And there was there with us a young man, an He­brew, ser­vant to the cap­tain of the guard; and we told him, and he in­ter­pret­ed to us our dreams; to each man ac­cord­ing to his dream he did in­ter­pret. 13 And it came to pass, as he in­ter­pret­ed to us, so it was; me he re­stored unto mine of­fice, and him he hanged. 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hasti­ly out of the dun­geon: and he shaved himself, and changed his rai­ment, and came in unto Pharaoh. 15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can in­ter­pret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst un­der­stand a dream to in­ter­pret it. 16 And Joseph an­swered Pharaoh, say­ing, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an an­swer of peace. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, be­hold, I stood upon the bank of the riv­er: 18 And, be­hold, there came up out of the riv­er sev­en kine, fat­fleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a mead­ow: 19 And, be­hold, sev­en oth­er kine came up af­ter them, poor and very ill favoured and lean­fleshed, such as I nev­er saw in all the land of Egypt for bad­ness: 20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first sev­en fat kine: 21 And when they had eat­en them up, it could not be known that they had eat­en them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the be­gin­ning. So I awoke. 22 And I saw in my dream, and, be­hold, sev­en ears came up in one stalk, full and good: 23 And, be­hold, sev­en ears, with­ered, thin, and blast­ed with the east wind, sprung up af­ter them: 24 And the thin ears de­voured the sev­en good ears: and I told this unto the ma­gi­cians; but there was none that could de­clare it to me. 25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh 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. 27 And the sev­en thin and ill favoured kine that came up af­ter them are sev­en years; and the sev­en emp­ty ears blast­ed with the east wind shall be sev­en years of famine. 28 This is the thing which I have spo­ken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. 29 Be­hold, there come sev­en years of great plen­ty through­out all the land of Egypt: 30 And there shall arise af­ter them sev­en years of famine; and all the plen­ty shall be for­got­ten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall con­sume the land; 31 And the plen­ty shall not be known in the land by rea­son of that famine fol­low­ing; for it shall be very grievous. 32 And for that the dream was dou­bled unto Pharaoh twice; it is be­cause the thing is es­tab­lished by God, and God will short­ly bring it to pass. 33 Now there­fore let Pharaoh look out a man dis­creet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him ap­point of­fi­cers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the sev­en plen­teous years. 35 And let them gath­er all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn un­der the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the sev­en years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land per­ish not through the famine. 37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his ser­vants. 38 And Pharaoh said unto his ser­vants, Can we find ­such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spir­it of God is? 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Foras­much as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so dis­creet and wise as thou art: 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and ac­cord­ing unto thy word shall all my peo­ple be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. 41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and ar­rayed him in ves­tures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 43 And he made him to ride in the sec­ond char­i­ot which he had; and they cried be­fore him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and with­out thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Za­ph­nath­paaneah; and he gave him to wife Ase­n­ath the daugh­ter of Potipher­ah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. 46 And Joseph was thir­ty years old when he stood be­fore Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the pres­ence of Pharaoh, and went through­out all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the sev­en plen­teous years the earth brought forth by hand­fuls. 48 And he gath­ered up all the food of the sev­en years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about ev­ery city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph gath­ered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, un­til he left num­ber­ing; for it was with­out num­ber. 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons be­fore the years of famine came, which Ase­n­ath the daugh­ter of Potipher­ah priest of On bare unto him. 51 And Joseph called the name of the first­born Man­asseh: For God, ­said he, hath made me for­get all my toil, and all my father's house. 52 And the name of the sec­ond called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruit­ful in the land of my af­flic­tion. 53 And the sev­en years of plen­teous­ness, that was in the land of Egypt, were end­ed. 54 And the sev­en years of dearth be­gan to come, ac­cord­ing as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55 And when all the land of Egypt was fam­ished, the peo­ple cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyp­tians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. 56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the store­hous­es, and sold unto the Egyp­tians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. 57 And all coun­tries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; be­cause that the famine was so sore in all lands.