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* 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 . * dummy verses inserted by amos * 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 , * And yet gave no mark of their being full : but were as lean and ill favoured as before . I awoke , and then fell asleep again , * And dreamed a dream : Seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk , full and very fair . * Other seven also thin and blasted , sprung of the stock : * And they devoured the beauty of the former : I told this dream to the conjecturers , and there is no man that can expound it . * Joseph answered : The king 's dream is one : God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do . * The seven beautiful kine , and the seven full ears , are seven years of plenty : and both contain the same meaning of the dream . * And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them , and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind , are seven years of famine to come : * Which shall be fulfilled in this order : * Behold , there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt : * After which shall follow other seven years of so great scacity , that all the abundance before shall be forgotten : for the famine shall consume all the land , * And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty . * And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing : it is a token of the certainty , and that the word of God cometh to pass , and is fulfilled speedily . * Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man , and make him ruler over the land of Egypt : * That he may appoint overseers over all the countries : and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits , during the seven fruitful years , * That shall now presently ensue : and let all the corn be laid up under Pharao 's hands and be reserved in the cities . * And let it be in readiness , against the famine of seven years to come , which shall oppress Egypt , and the land shall not consumed with scarcity . * The counsel pleased Pharao and all his servants . * And he said to them : Can we find such another man , that is full of the spirit of God ? * He said therefore to Joseph : Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said , can I find one wiser and one like unto thee ? * Thou shalt be over my house , and at the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey : only in the kingly throne will I be above thee . * And again Pharao said to Joseph : Behold , I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt . * And he took his ring from his own hand , and gave it into his hand : and he put upon him a robe of silk , and put a chain of gold about his neck . * And he made him go up into his second chariot , the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him , and that they should know he was made govenor over the whole land of Egypt . * And the king said to Joseph : I am Pharao ; without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt . * And he turned his name , and called him in the Eyyptian tounge , The saviour of the world . And he gave him to wife Asenth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopolis . Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt : * (Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao ) and he went round all the countries of Egypt . * And the fruitfulness of the seven years came : and the corm being bound up into sheaves was gathered together into the barns of Egypt . * And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city . * And there was so great abundance of wheat , that it was equal to the sand of the sea , and the plenty exceeded measure . * And before the famine came , Joseph had two sons born : whom Aseneth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopolis bore unto him . * And he called the name of the first born Manasses , saying : God hath made me to forget all my labours , and my father 's house . * And he named the second Epharaim , saying : God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty . * Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past : * The seven years of scarcity , which Joseph had foretold , began to come : and the famine prevailed in the whole world , but there was bread in all the land of Egypt . * And when there also they began to be famished , the people cried to Pharao for food . And he said to them : Go to Joseph : and do all that he shall say to you . * And the famine increased daily in all the land : and Joseph opened all the barns , and sold to the Egyptians : for the famine had oppressed them also . * And all provinces came into Egypt , to buy food , and to seek some relief of their want .

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