Genesis 41:14–36

¹⁴And Pharaoh sendeth and calleth Joseph, and they cause him to run out of the pit, and he shaveth, and changeth his garments, and cometh in unto Pharaoh. ¹⁵And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, ‘A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I—I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,’ ¹⁶and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, ‘Without me—God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.’

¹⁷And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: ‘In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River, ¹⁸and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat in flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds; ¹⁹and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean in flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.

²⁰‘And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine, ²¹and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance is bad as at the commencement; and I awake.

²²‘And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good; ²³and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them; ²⁴and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.’ ²⁵And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, ‘The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh; ²⁶the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one; ²⁷and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine; ²⁸this is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.

²⁹‘Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt, ³⁰and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land, ³¹and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it is very grievous.

³²‘And because of the repeating of the dream unto Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hastening to do it.

³³‘And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt; ³⁴let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty, ³⁵and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh—food in the cities; and they have kept it, ³⁶and the food hath been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.’