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Genesis - ch 41 v 1 - 20
- After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,
- Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
- Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and leanfleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:
- And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.
- He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:
- Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,
- And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest:
- And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could interpret it.
- Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:
- The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers:
- Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
- There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,
- And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.
- Forthwith at the king's command, Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him, and changing his apparel, brought him in to him.
- And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them.
- Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.
- So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,
- And seven kine came up out of the river exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.
- And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:
- And the devoured and consumed the former,
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