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The two dreams of Pharaoh :

CHAP. XLI. Joseph interprets them. seph, I also was in my dream, and behold, the guard; and we told him, and he interI had three white baskets on my head: preted to us our dreams; to each man ac17 And in the uppermost basket there cording to his dream he did interpret. was of all manner of bake-meats for Pharach: and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

18 And Joseph answered, and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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 T 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, 1 have dreamed a dream, and there is none 20 ¶ And it came to pass the third day, that can interpret it: and I have heard which was Pharaoh's birth-day, that he say of thee, that thou canst understand a made a feast unto all his servants: and he dream to interpret it.

lifted up the head of the chief butler and 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, sayof the chief baker among his servants. ing, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:

22 But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

CHAP. XLI.

ND it came to pass at the end of two A full year, that pharaoh

dreamed;

and behold, he stood by the river.

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, fat-fleshed, and wellfavoured; and they fed in a meadow:

19 And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in ill-favoured,

all the land of Egypt for badness: 2 And behold, there came up out of the 20 And the lean and the ill-favoured river seven well-favoured kine and fat-kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: fleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 21 And when they had eaten them up,

3 And behold, seven other kine came it could not be known that they had eaten up after them out of the river, ill-favoured them; but they were still ill-favoured, as and lean-fleshed; and stood by the other at the beginning. So I awoke. kine upon the brink of the river. 22 And I saw in my dream, and be4 And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed hold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and good: 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.

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 unto me.

25 T And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath 8 And it came to pass in the morning, shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. that his spirit was troubled; and he sent 26 The seven good kine are seven and called for all the magicians of Egypt, years; and the seven good ears are seven and all the wise men thereof: and Pha- years: the dream is one. raoh told them his dreams; but there was 27 And the seven thin and ill-favournone that could interpret them unto ed kine that came up after them are seven Pharaoh. years; and the seven empty ears blasted 9 T Then spake the chief butler unto with the east wind shall be seven years of Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults famine. this day: 28 This is the thing which I have 10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, spoken unto Pharaoh: what God is about and put me in ward in the captain of the to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. guard's house, both me, and the chief baker: 29 Behold, there come seven years of 11 And we dreamed a dream in one great plenty throughout all the land of night, I and he: we dreamed each man ac- Egypt:

cording to the interpretation of his dream. 30 And there shall arise after them se12 And there was there with us a young ven years of famine; and all the plenty man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt:

Joseph counsels Pharaoh.

GENESIS. Jacob sends to Egypt for corn.

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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.

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 Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh; for God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

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 52 And the name of the second called seven plenteous years. he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to 35 And let them gather all the food of be fruitful in the land of my affliction. those good years that come, and lay up 53 And the seven years of plenteouscorn under the hand of Pharaoh; and let ness that was in the land of Egypt, were them keep food in the cities.

ended.

36 And that food shall be for store to 54 And the seven years of dearth began the land against the seven years of famine, to come, according as Joseph had said. which shall be in the land of Egypt; that and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land perish not through the famine. the land of Egypt there was bread.

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?

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 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Foras- of the earth: and Joseph opened all the much as God hath shewed thee all this, there store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; is none so discreet and wise as thou art: and the famine waxed sore in the land of 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and Egypt. according unto thy word shall all my peo- 57 And all countries came into Egypt ple be ruled: only in the throne will I be to Joseph for to buy corn; because that greater than thou. the famine was so sore in all lands.

41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See,

CHAP. XLII.

when Jacob saw that there was

I have set thee over all the land of Norwin Egypt, Jacob said unto his Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from sons, Why do ye look one upon anohis 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.

ther?

2 And he said, Behold I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. said, Lest peradventure mischief befall 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name him. Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah corn among those that came: for the fapriest of On: and Joseph went out over mine was in the land of Canaan. all the land of Egypt. 6 And Joseph was the governor over 46 ¶ And Joseph was thirty years old the land, and he it was that sold to all the when he stood before Pharaoh king of people of the land: and Joseph's brethEgypt: and Joseph went out from the ren came, and bowed down themselves presence of Pharaoh, and went through- before him with their faces to the earth. out all the land of Egypt.

47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them 48 And he gathered up all the food of and he said unto them, Whence come ye? the seven years which were in the land of And they said, From the land of Canaan Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: to buy food.

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