Genesis 41:14–36

¹⁴Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph; and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. And he shaved himself, and changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh. ¹⁵And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamt a dream, and there is none to interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, thou understandest a dream to interpret it. ¹⁶And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

¹⁷And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the bank of the river. ¹⁸And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they fed in the reed-grass. ¹⁹And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed—such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. ²⁰And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine; ²¹and they came into their belly, and it could not be known that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke. ²²And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good. ²³And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them; ²⁴and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me. ²⁵And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God will do he has made known to Pharaoh. ²⁶The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. ²⁷And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine. ²⁸This is the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has let Pharaoh see. ²⁹Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt. ³⁰And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land. ³¹And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous. ³²And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God will hasten to do it.

³³And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty, ³⁵and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep it. ³⁶And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.