¹ A posle dve godine dana usni Faraon, a on stoji na jednoj reci.

² I gle, iz reke izađe sedam krava lepih i debelih, i stadoše pasti po obali.

³ I gle, iza njih izađe iz reke sedam drugih krava, ružnih i mršavih, i stadoše pored onih krava na obali.

⁴ I ove krave ružne i mršave pojedoše onih sedam krava lepih i debelih. U tom se probudi Faraon.

⁵ Pa opet zaspav usni drugom, a to sedam klasova izraste iz jednog stabla jedrih i lepih;

⁶ A iza njih isklija sedam klasova malih i šturih;

⁷ Pa ovi klasovi mali pojedoše onih sedam velikih i jedrih. U tom se probudi Faraon i vide da je san.

⁸ I kad bi ujutru, on se zabrinu u duhu, i poslavši sazva sve gatare misirske i sve mudrace, i pripovedi im šta je snio; ali niko ne može kazati Faraonu šta znači.

⁹ Tada progovori starešina nad peharnicima Faraonu i reče: Danas se opomenuh greha svog.

¹⁰ Kad se Faraon rasrdi na sluge svoje i baci u tamnicu u kući zapovednika stražarskog mene i starešinu nad hlebarima,

¹¹ Usnismo jednu noćja i on, svaki za sebe po značenju sna svog usnismo.

¹² A onde beše s nama momče Jevrejče, sluga zapovednika stražarskog, i mi mu pripovedismo sne, a on nam kaza šta čiji san znači.

¹³ I zbi se kako nam kaza: mene povrati Faraon u službu, a onog obesi.

¹⁴ Tada Faraon posla po Josifa, i brže ga izvedoše iz tamnice, a on se obrija i preobuče se, te izađe pred Faraona.

¹⁵ A Faraon reče Josifu: Usnih san, pa mi niko ne ume da kaže šta znači; a za tebe čujem da umeš kazivati sne.

¹⁶ A Josif odgovori Faraonu i reče: To nije u mojoj vlasti, Bog će javiti dobro Faraonu.

¹⁷ I reče Faraon Josifu: Usnih, a ja stojim kraj reke na obali.

¹⁸ I gle, iz reke izađe sedam krava debelih i lepih, te stadoše pasti po obali.

¹⁹ I gle, iza njih izađe sedam drugih krava rđavih, i vrlo ružnih i mršavih, kakvih nisam video u celoj zemlji misirskoj.

²⁰ I ove krave mršave i ružne pojedoše onih sedam debelih,

²¹ I kad im biše u trbuhu, ne poznavaše se da su im u trbuhu, nego opet behu onako ružne kao pre. U tom se probudih.

²² Pa opet usnih, a to sedam klasova izraste iz jednog stabla jedrih i lepih;

²³ A iza njih isklija sedam malih, tankih i šturih.

²⁴ I ovi tanki klasovi proždreše onih sedam lepih. I ovo pripovedih gatarima, ali mi ni jedan ne zna kazati šta znači.

²⁵ A Josif reče Faraonu: Oba su sna Faraonova jednaka; Bog javlja Faraonu šta je naumio.

²⁶ Sedam lepih krava jesu Sedam godina, i Sedam lepih klasova jesu Sedam godina; oba su sna jednaka.

²⁷ A sedam krava mršavih i ružnih, što izađoše iza onih, jesu sedam godina; i sedam klasova sitnih i šturih biće sedam godina gladnih.

²⁸ To je što rekoh Faraonu: Bog kaže Faraonu šta je naumio.

²⁹ Evo doći će sedam godina vrlo rodnih svoj zemlji misirskoj.

³⁰ A iza njih nastaće sedam gladnih godina, gde će se zaboraviti sve obilje u zemlji misirskoj, jer će glad satrti zemlju,

³¹ Te se neće znati to obilje u zemlji od gladi potonje, jer će biti vrlo velika.

³² A što je dva puta uzastopce Faraon snio, to je zato što je zacelo Bog tako naumio, i na skoro će to učiniti Bog.

³³ Nego sada neka potraži Faraon čoveka mudrog i razumnog, pa neka ga postavi nad zemljom misirskom.

³⁴ I neka gleda Faraon da postavi starešine po zemlji, i pokupi petinu po zemlji misirskoj za sedam rodnih godina;

³⁵ Neka skupljaju od svakog žita za rodnih godina koje idu, i neka snesu pod ruku Faraonovu svakog žita u sve gradove, i neka čuvaju,

³⁶ Da se nađe hrane zemlji za sedam godina gladnih, kad nastanu, da ne propadne zemlja od gladi.

³⁷ I ovo se učini dobro Faraonu i svim slugama njegovim.

³⁸ I reče Faraon slugama svojim: Možemo li naći čoveka kakav je ovaj, u kome bi duh bio Božji?

³⁹ Pa reče Faraon Josifu: Kad je tebi javio Bog sve ovo, nema nikoga tako mudrog i razumnog kao što si ti.

⁴⁰ Ti ćeš biti nad domom mojim, i sav će ti narod moj usta ljubiti; samo ću ovim prestolom biti veći od tebe.

⁴¹ I još reče Faraon Josifu: Evo, postavljam te nad svom zemljom misirskom.

⁴² I skide Faraon prsten s ruke svoje i metnu ga Josifu na ruku, i obuče ga u haljine od tankog platna, i obesi mu zlatnu verižicu o vratu,

⁴³ I posadi ga na kola koja behu druga za njegovim, i zapovedi da pred njim viču: Klanjajte se! I da ga je postavio nad svom zemljom misirskom.

⁴⁴ I još reče Faraon Josifu: Ja sam Faraon, ali bez tebe neće niko maći ruke svoje ni noge svoje u svoj zemlji misirskoj.

⁴⁵ I dade Faraon Josifu ime Psontomfanih, i oženi ga Asenetom kćerju Potifere sveštenika onskog. I pođe Josif po zemlji misirskoj.

⁴⁶ A beše Josifu trideset godina kad izađe pred Faraona cara misirskog. I otišavši od Faraona obiđe svu zemlju misirsku.

⁴⁷ I za sedam rodnih godina rodi zemlja svašta izobila.

⁴⁸ I stade Josif kupiti za tih sedam godina svakog žita što beše po zemlji misirskoj, i snositi žito u gradove; u svaki grad snošaše žito s njiva koje behu oko njega.

⁴⁹ Tako nakupi Josif žita vrlo mnogo koliko je peska morskog, tako da ga presta meriti, jer mu ne beše broja.

⁵⁰ I dokle još ne nasta gladna godina, rodiše se Josifu dva sina, koje mu rodi Aseneta kći Potifere sveštenika onskog.

⁵¹ I prvencu nadede Josif ime Manasija, govoreći: Jer mi Bog dade da zaboravim svu muku svoju i sav dom oca svog.

⁵² A drugom nadede ime Jefrem, govoreći: Jer mi Bog dade da rastem u zemlji nevolje svoje.

⁵³ Ali prođe sedam godina rodnih u zemlji misirskoj;

⁵⁴ I nasta sedam godina gladnih, kao što je Josif napred kazao. I beše glad po svim zemljama, a po svoj zemlji misirskoj beše hleba.

⁵⁵ Ali najposle nasta glad i po svoj zemlji misirskoj, i narod povika k Faraonu za hleb; a Faraon reče svima Misircima: Idite k Josifu, pa šta vam on kaže ono činite.

⁵⁶ I kad glad beše po svoj zemlji, otvori Josif sve žitnice, i prodavaše Misircima. I glad posta vrlo velika u zemlji misirskoj.

⁵⁷ I iz svih zemalja dolažahu u Misir k Josifu da kupuju; jer posta glad u svakoj zemlji.

¹ It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

² Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

³ Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

⁴ The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

⁵ He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

⁶ Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

⁷ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

⁸ It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

⁹ Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.

¹⁰ Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

¹¹ We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

¹² There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

¹³ It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

¹⁵ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

¹⁶ Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

¹⁷ Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

¹⁸ and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

¹⁹ and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

²⁰ The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

²¹ and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

²² I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

²³ and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

²⁴ The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

²⁵ Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

²⁶ The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

²⁷ The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

²⁸ That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

²⁹ Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

³⁰ There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

³¹ and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

³² The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

³³ "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

³⁵ Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

³⁶ The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

³⁷ The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

³⁸ Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

³⁹ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

⁴¹ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

⁴² Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

⁴³ and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁴ Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

⁴⁵ Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶ Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁷ In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

⁴⁸ He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

⁴⁹ Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

⁵⁰ To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

⁵¹ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

⁵² The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

⁵³ The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

⁵⁴ The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

⁵⁵ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

⁵⁶ The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

⁵⁷ All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.