Genesis Chapter 41

Genesis Chapter 41
1 And two years after, Pharaoh also
dreamed, and behold, he stood by a
river,
2 And lo, there came out of the river
seven goodly kine and fat fleshed, and
they fed in a meadow:
3 And lo, seven other kine came up after
the out of the river, evil favored and lean
fleshed, and stood by the other kine
upon the brink of the river. 4 And the
evil favored and lean fleshed kine did
eat up the seven well favored and fat
kine: so Pharaoh awoke.
5 Again he slept, and dreamed the
second time: and behold, seven ears of
corn grew upon one stalk, rank and
goodly.
6 And lo, seven thin ears, and blasted
with the east wind, sprang up after them:
7 And the thin ears devoured the seven
rank and full ears. Then Pharaoh
awaked, and lo, it was a dream.
8 Now when the morning came, his
spirit was troubled: therefore he sent
and called all the soothsayers of Egypt,
and all the wise men thereof, and
Pharaoh told them his dreams: but none
could interpret them to Pharaoh. 9 Then
spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh,
saying, I call to mind my faults this day.
10 Pharaoh being angry with his
servants, put me in ward in the chief
steward’s house, both me and the chief
baker.
11 Then we dreamed a dream in one
night, both I, and he: we dreamed each
man according to the interpretation of his
dream.
12 And there was with us a young man,
an Hebrew, servant unto the chief
steward, whom when we told, he
declared our dreams to us, to every one
he declared according to his dream.
13 And as he declared unto us, so it
came to pass: for he restored me to mine
office, and hanged him.
14 Then sent Pharaoh, and called
Joseph, and they brought him hastily out
of prison, and he shaved him, and
changed his raiment, and came to
Pharaoh. 15 Then Pharaoh said to
Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and no
man can interpret it, and I have heard say
of thee, that when thou hearest a dream,
thou canst interpret it.
16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh,
saying, Without me God shall answer for
the wealth of Pharaoh.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my
dream, behold, I stood by the bank of the
river:
18 And lo, there came up out of the river
seven fat fleshed, and well favored kine,
and they fed in the meadow.
19 Also lo, seven other kine came up
after them, poor and very evil favored,
and lean fleshed: I never saw the like in
all the land of Egypt, for evil favored.
20 And the lean and evil favored 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 as evil favored,
as they were at the beginning: so did I
awake.
22 Moreover I saw in my dream, and
behold, seven ears sprang out of one
stalk, full and fair.
23 And lo, seven ears, withered, thin,
and blasted with the east wind, sprang
up after them.
24 And the thin ears devoured the seven
good ears. Now I have told the
soothsayers, and none can declare it unto
me.
25 Then Joseph answered Pharaoh, Both
Pharaoh’s dreams are one. God hath
showed Pharaoh, what he is about to do.
26 The seven good kine are seven years,
and the seven good ears are seven years:
this is one dream.
27 Likewise the seven thin and evil
favored kine, that came out after them,
are seven years: and the seven empty
ears blasted with the east wind, are
seven years of famine.
28 This is the thing which I have said
unto Pharaoh, that God hath showed unto
Pharaoh, what he is about to do.
29 Behold, there come seven years of
great plenty in all the land of Egypt. 30
Again, there shall arise after them seven
years of famine, so that all the plenty
shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt,
and the famine shall consume the land:
31 Neither shall the plenty be known in
the land, by reason of this famine that
shall come after: for it shall be
exceeding great. 32 And therefore the
dream was doubled unto Pharaoh the
second time, because the thing is
established by God, and God hasteth to
perform it. 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh
provide for a man of understanding and
wisdom, and set him over the land of
Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh make and appoint
officers over the land, and take up the
fifth part of the land of Egypt in the
seven plenteous years.
35 Also let them gather all the food of
these good years that come, and lay up
corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food,
in the cities, and let them keep it. 36 So
the food shall be for the provision of the
land, against the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt, that
the land perish not by famine.
37 And the saying pleased Pharaoh and
all his servants.
38 Then said Pharaoh unto his servants,
Can we find such a man as this, in whom
is the Spirit of God?
39 The Pharaoh said to Joseph, For as
much as God hath showed thee all this,
there is no man of understanding, or of
wisdom like unto thee. 40 Thou shalt be
over mine house, and at thy word shall
all my people be armed, only in the
king’s throne will I be above thee.
41 Moreover Pharaoh said to Joseph,
Behold, 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 garments of fine
linen, and put a golden chain about his
neck.
43 So he set him upon the best chariot
that he had, save one: and they cried
before him, Abrech, and placed him
over all the land of Egypt.
44 Again Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am
Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man
lift up his hand or his foot in all the land
of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name
Zaphnath-paaneah: and he gave him to
wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah
prince of On. Then went Joseph abroad
in the land of Egypt.
46 And Joseph was thirty year old when
he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt:
and Joseph departing from the presence
of Pharaoh, went throughout all the land
of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the
earth brought forth store. 48 And he
gathered up all the food of the seven
plenteous years, which were in the land
of Egypt, and laid up food in the cities:
the food of the field, that was round
about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 So Joseph gathered wheat, like unto
the sand of the sea in multitude out of
measure, until he left numbering: for it
was without number. 50 Now unto
Joseph were born two sons (before the
years of famine came) which Asenath the
daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On
bear unto him. 51 And Joseph called the
name of the firstborn Manasseh: for
God, said he, hath made me forget all
my labor and all my father’s household.
52 Also he called the name of the
second, Ephraim: For God, said he hath
made me fruitful in the land of mine
affliction.
53 So the seven years of the plenty that
was in the land of Egypt were ended. 54
Then began the seven years of famine to
come, according as Joseph had said: and
the famine was in all lands, but in all the
land of Egypt was bread. 55 At the
length all the land of Egypt was
famished, and the people cried to
Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said
unto all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph:
what he saith to you, do ye.
56 When the famine was upon all the
land, Joseph opened all places, wherein
the store was, and sold unto the
Egyptians: for the famine waxed sore in
the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came to Egypt to
buy corn of Joseph, because the famine
was sore in all lands.