¹ En la deka jaro, en la deka monato, en la dek-dua tago de la monato, aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

² Ho filo de homo, turnu vian vizagxon al Faraono, regxo de Egiptujo, kaj profetu pri li kaj pri la tuta Egiptujo.

³ Parolu, kaj diru:Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi iras kontraux vin, ho Faraono, regxo de Egiptujo, granda drako, kiu kusxas meze de siaj riveroj, kaj diras:La rivero estas mia, kaj mi faris gxin por mi.

⁴ Mi metos hokojn en vian busxon, Mi alkrocxos la fisxojn de viaj riveroj al via skvamaro, kaj Mi eltiros vin el viaj riveroj kune kun cxiuj fisxoj de viaj riveroj, kiuj estas alkrocxitaj al via skvamaro.

⁵ Mi jxetos vin en la dezerton, vin kaj cxiujn fisxojn de viaj riveroj; sur la kampon vi falos, oni vin ne levos kaj ne enkolektos; al la bestoj de la tero kaj al la birdoj de la cxielo Mi transdonos vin kiel mangxajxon.

⁶ Kaj ekscios cxiuj logxantoj de Egiptujo, ke Mi estas la Eternulo; pro tio, ke ili estis kana apogo por la domo de Izrael:

⁷ kiam ili kaptis vin per la mano, vi fendigxis kaj trapikis al ili la tutan flankon; kaj kiam ili apogis sin sur vi, vi rompigxis kaj traboris al ili la tutajn lumbojn.

⁸ Tial tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi venigos sur vin glavon kaj ekstermos cxe vi la homojn kaj la brutojn.

⁹ Kaj la lando Egipta farigxos dezerto kaj ruinoj; kaj oni ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo; pro tio, ke li diris:La rivero estas mia, kaj mi gxin faris.

¹⁰ Tial jen Mi iras kontraux vin kaj kontraux viajn riverojn, kaj Mi faros el la lando Egipta ruinojn, absolutajn ruinojn, de Migdol gxis Sevene, gxis la limo de Etiopujo.

¹¹ Ne trairos gxin piedo de homo, nek piedo de bruto trairos gxin, kaj gxi ne estos logxata dum kvardek jaroj.

¹² Kaj Mi faros la landon Egiptan dezerto inter la aliaj dezertaj landoj, kaj gxiaj urboj inter la aliaj ruinigitaj urboj estos dezertaj dum kvardek jaroj; kaj Mi disjxetos la Egiptojn inter la popolojn kaj dispelos ilin en diversajn landojn.

¹³ CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Post paso de kvardek jaroj Mi kolektos la Egiptojn el inter la popoloj, kien ili estis disjxetitaj;

¹⁴ kaj Mi revenigos la forkaptitajn Egiptojn, kaj revenigos ilin en la landon Patros, en la landon de ilia deveno, kaj ili tie estos humila regno.

¹⁵ GXi estos humila inter la aliaj regnoj, kaj gxi ne plu sin tenos alte super la nacioj; Mi faros gxin malgranda, por ke gxi ne regu super la nacioj.

¹⁶ Kaj gxi ne plu estos por la domo de Izrael fidatajxo, rememoriganta iliajn malbonagojn, kiam ili sin turnadis al gxi; kaj oni ekscios, ke Mi estas la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

¹⁷ En la dudek-sepa jaro, en la unua monato, en la unua tago de la monato, aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

¹⁸ Ho filo de homo! Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, sxargxis sian militistaron per granda laboro kontraux Tiro, tiel, ke cxiuj kapoj senharigxis kaj cxiuj sxultroj defrotigxis; kaj tamen nek li nek lia militistaro ricevis rekompencon antaux Tiro pro la laboro, kiun li faris antaux gxi.

¹⁹ Tial tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi donos al Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, la landon Egiptan, por ke li forportu gxiajn ricxajxojn kaj faru en gxi rabadon kaj diskapton; kaj tio estos rekompenco por lia militistaro.

²⁰ Rekompence pro la laboro, kiun li faris, Mi donis al li la landon Egiptan; cxar ili laboris por Mi, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

²¹ En tiu tempo Mi elkreskigos kornon al la domo de Izrael, kaj al vi Mi donos liberecon de parolado inter ili; kaj ili ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo.

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.