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And it was, from the end of two··years of days , and Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by◦ the river◦.
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And behold, from the river◦ there came··up seven cows , beautiful in appearance and nourished in flesh ; and they pastured in the sedge.
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And behold, seven other cows came··up after them out··of the river◦, evil of appearance and thin in flesh , and stood beside the cows upon the lip of the river◦.
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And the cows , bad of appearance and thin in flesh , did eat up the seven cows , beautiful of appearance and nourished. And Pharaoh awoke.
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And he slept and dreamed a second time, and behold, seven ears ◦ of grain came··up upon◦ one reed, nourished and good .
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And behold, seven ears ◦ thin and scorched by the east··wind grew after them.
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And the thin ears ◦ swallowed ··up the seven nourished and full ears ◦. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream .
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And it was, in the morning , and his spirit was disquieted; and he sent and called all the magicians of Egypt , and all her wise men; and Pharaoh told· them ·of his dream ; and no··one interpreted these things to Pharaoh .
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And spoke the prince of the cupbearers with◦ Pharaoh , saying, I◦ do remember my sins today .
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Pharaoh was··enraged against his servants , and put ◦ me under guard in the house of the prince of the guards◦, me and the prince of the bakers ;
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and we dreamed a dream in one night , I◦ and he◦; we dreamed a man ◦ according··to the interpretation of his dream .
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And there was with◦ us there a Hebrew lad , servant to the prince of the guards◦; and we recounted◦ to him, and he interpreted to us our dreams ; to a man ◦ according··to his dream he did interpret.
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And it was, as◦ he interpreted to us , so it was; me he returned to my position◦, and him he hanged .
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And Pharaoh sent and called Joseph , and they hurried him* from the pit ; and he trimmed◦ his hair, and changed his raiment , and came to▵ Pharaoh .
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And Pharaoh said to▵ Joseph , I have dreamed a dream , and there is no interpreter of it; and I◦ have heard concerning thee, saying, thou hearest a dream to interpret it.
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And Joseph answered Pharaoh , saying, Not to me; God shall answer peace to Pharaoh .
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And Pharaoh spoke to▵ Joseph , In my dream behold, I stood on the lip of the river◦;
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and behold, from the river◦ there came··up seven cows , nourished in flesh and beautiful of form◦; and they pastured in the sedge.
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and behold, seven other cows came··up afterwards, poor and very bad in form◦, and slender in flesh; they◦ were as I have not seen in all the land of Egypt for badness;
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and the slender and bad cows did eat ··up the first seven nourished cows ;
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and they came ··in to▵ their inward··parts, and it was not known that they had come ··in to▵ their inward··parts; and their appearance was bad, as◦ in the beginning. And I awoke.
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And I saw in my dream , and behold, seven ears ◦ came··up upon◦ one reed, full and good ;
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and behold, seven ears ◦, shriveled, thin , and scorched by the east··wind, grew up after them;
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and the thin ears ◦ swallowed ··up the seven good ears ◦; and I say it to▵ the magicians; and no··one tells it to me.
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And Joseph said to▵ Pharaoh , The dream of Pharaoh , it◦ is one ; what God is doing He has told to Pharaoh .
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The seven good cows , they◦ are seven years, and the seven good ears ◦, they◦ are seven years; the dream , it◦ is one .
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And the seven slender and evil cows that came··up after them, they◦ are seven years, and the seven empty ears ◦ scorched with the east··wind shall be seven years of famine.
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This◦ is the word*, that I spoke to▵ Pharaoh ; what God does He has caused Pharaoh to see .
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Behold, there come seven years of great plenty in all the land of Egypt ;
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and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt ; and the famine shall consume··all the land ;
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and the plenty shall not ·be known in the land from the faces of that◦ famine after it, for it◦ shall be very heavy.
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And the dream was repeated◦ to▵ Pharaoh two··times◦, for◦ the word is established by▵ God , and God is hastening to do it.
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And now let Pharaoh see a man ◦ with understanding and wisdom , and put him over the land of Egypt .
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Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land , and take the fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty .
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And let them bring ··together all the food of those good years that come , and pile··up grain◦ under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities , and let them guard it.
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And the food shall be for a deposit for the land for the seven years of the famine that shall be in the land of Egypt ; and the land shall not be cut··off in the famine.
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And the word was··good in the eyes of Pharaoh , and in the eyes of all his servants .
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And Pharaoh said to▵ his servants , Shall we find such a one as this, a man ◦ in whom is the spirit of God ?
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And Pharaoh said to▵ Joseph , Since▵ God has caused thee to know all this, there is no··one so with understanding and wisdom as▵ thou.
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Thou◦ shalt be over my house , and upon thy mouth shall all my people kiss ; only in the throne will I be··greater than thou.
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And Pharaoh said to▵ Joseph , See , I have put ◦ thee over all the land of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh removed his ring from upon his hand , and put ◦ it upon the hand of Joseph , and clothed him in garments of fine··linen , and set a necklace of gold upon his neck ;
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and he had him ride in the second chariot that he had◦; and they proclaimed before him, Abrech*; and he put ◦ him over all the land of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh said to▵ Joseph , I◦ am Pharaoh , and besides thee shall no◦ man ◦ lift··high his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh called Joseph ’s name Zaphenath-paneach ; and he gave him Asenath the daughter of Potiphera priest of On for a woman ; and Joseph went··out over the land of Egypt .
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And Joseph was a son of thirty years when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt . And Joseph went··out from before Pharaoh , and passed into all the land of Egypt .
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And the land made a gathering* by handfuls in the seven years of plenty .
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And he brought··together all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt , and put ◦ the food in cities ; the food of the field of the city , that which was all around her, he put ◦ in the midst of her.
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And Joseph piled··up grain◦ as the sand of the sea , multiplying it exceedingly, until he stopped numbering , for it had no number .
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And to Joseph was··born* two sons before◦ the year of famine came , to whom Asenath the daughter of Potiphera priest of On gave··birth for him.
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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh ; For God has made me forget◦ all my labor , and all the house of my father .
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And the name of the second called he Ephraim ; For God has made· me ·fruitful in the land of my affliction .
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And the seven years of plenty , which was in the land of Egypt , were completed.
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And the seven years of famine began to come , as◦ Joseph had said ; and there was famine in all the lands ; and in all the land of Egypt there was bread .
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And all the land of Egypt was··hungry, and the people cried to▵ Pharaoh for bread ; and Pharaoh said to all Egypt , Go to▵ Joseph ; what he says to you, do.
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And the famine was on all the faces of the land ; and Joseph opened all that was in them*, and rationed to Egypt ; and the famine held··firm in the land of Egypt .
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And all the land came to Egypt to purchase, to▵ Joseph ; for the famine held··firm in all the land .