Genesis 41:1-44

ECB(i) 1
PAROH DREAMS
And so be it, at the end of two years of days, Paroh dreams: and behold, he stands by the river: 2 and behold, seven heifers ascend from the river - beautiful visaged and fatfleshed; and they graze in the bulrushes: 3 and behold, seven other heifers ascend after them from the river - evil visaged and thinfleshed and they stand by the heifers on the edge of the river: 4 and the evil visaged and thinfleshed heifers eat up the seven beautiful visaged and fat heifers - and Paroh wakes. 5 And he sleeps and dreams the second: and behold, seven ears ascend on one stem, fat and good: 6 and behold, seven thin ears blasted by the easterly spring up after them: 7 and the thin ears swallow the seven fat and full ears - and Paroh wakes, and behold, it is a dream. 8 And so be it, in the morning, his spirit agitates; and he sends and calls for all the magicians of Misrayim and all the wise thereof: and Paroh describes his dream; and there is no interpreter to Paroh. 9 Then the governor of the butlers words to Paroh, saying, I remember my sins this day: 10 Paroh raged with his servants and gave me under guard in the house of the governor of the slaughterer - me and the governor of the bakers: 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 is a lad with us - a Hebrew, servant to the governor of the slaughterers; and we describe to him and he interprets to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he interprets. 13 And so be it, as he interprets to us, so be it; he restores me to my station and he hangs him. 14 Then Paroh sends and calls Yoseph and they run him from the well: and he shaves and changes his clothes and comes in to Paroh. 15 And Paroh says to Yoseph, I dreamed a dream and there is no interpreter: and I hear say of you, that you hear a dream to interpret it. 16 And Yoseph answers Paroh, saying, Except for I: Elohim answers Paroh with shalom. 17 And Paroh words to Yoseph, In my dream, behold, I stand on the edge of the river: 18 and behold, seven heifers ascend from the river - fatfleshed and of beautiful form; and they graze in the bulrushes: 19 and behold, seven other heifers ascend after them - poor and mighty evilly formed and emaciated flesh such as I have never seen in all the land of Misrayim for evil: 20 and the emaciated and the evil heifers ate the first seven fat heifers: 21 and entered their inwards, they are not seen entering their inwards; and they are still evilly visaged as at the beginning - and I waken. 22 And I see in my dream, and behold, seven ears ascend in one stem, full and good: 23 and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with the easterly, spring up after them: 24 and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears. - and I say this to the magicians; and there is none to tell me. 25 And Yoseph says to Paroh, The dream of Paroh is one: Elohim told Paroh what he is about to work. 26 The seven good heifers are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 27 And the seven emaciated and evil heifers ascending after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the easterly are seven years of famine. 28 This is the word I worded to Paroh: What Elohim is about to work, he has Paroh see. 29 Behold, there come seven years of great sufficiency throughout all the land of Misrayim: 30 and after them rise seven years of famine: and all the sufficiency of the land of Misrayim is forgotten; and the famine finishes off the land: 31 and the sufficiency is not known in the land at the face of the famine - for it is mighty heavy. 32 And because of duplicating the dream to Paroh two times; surely the word is established by Elohim; and Elohim hastens to work. 33 And now Paroh, seek a man discerning and wise and set him over the land of Misrayim. 34 Paroh, work this; and muster overseers over the land - over a fifth of the land of Misrayim in the seven years of sufficiency: 35 and have them gather all the food of those good years that come and heap grain under the hand of Paroh and have them guard food in the cities: 36 and that food is for overseeing to the land for the seven years of famine in the land of Misrayim - that the land not be cut through the famine. 37 And the word well-pleases the eyes of Paroh and the eyes of all his servants: 38 and Paroh says to his servants, Can we find thus - a man in whom the Spirit of Elohim is? 39 And Paroh says to Yoseph, Since Elohim has you know all this, no one is as discerning and wise as you: 40 you - you be over my house; all my people kiss your mouth: only in the throne I am greater than you. 41 And Paroh says to Yoseph, Behold, I give you over all the land of Misrayim. 42 - and Paroh turns aside his signet from his hand and gives it on the hand of Yoseph; and enrobes him in clothes of white linen and puts a gold chain about his neck; 43 and he has him ride in his second chariot; and they call at his face, Kneel! - and he gives him over all the land of Misrayim. 44 And Paroh says to Yoseph, I - Paroh! And without you no man lifts his hand or foot in all the land of Misrayim.