Genesis:41-42
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And it came to pass at the end of two full years ,
that Pharaoh dreamed :
and ,
behold ,
he stood by the river .
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And ,
behold ,
there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed ;
and they fed in a meadow .
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And ,
behold ,
seven other kine came up after them out of the river ,
ill favoured and leanfleshed ;
and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river .
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And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine .
So Pharaoh awoke .
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And he slept and dreamed the second time :
and ,
behold ,
seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk ,
rank and good .
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And ,
behold ,
seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them .
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And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears .
And Pharaoh awoke ,
and ,
behold ,
it was a dream .
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And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled ;
and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt ,
and all the wise men thereof :
and Pharaoh told them his dream ;
but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh .
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Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh ,
saying ,
I do remember my faults this day :
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Pharaoh was wroth with his servants ,
and put me in ward in the captain of the guard '
s house ,
both me and the chief baker :
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And we dreamed a dream in one night ,
I and he ;
we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream .
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And there was there with us a young man ,
an 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 did interpret .
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And it came to pass ,
as he interpreted to us ,
so it was ;
me he restored unto mine office ,
and him he hanged .
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Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph ,
and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon :
and he shaved himself ,
and changed his raiment ,
and came in unto Pharaoh .
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,
I have dreamed a dream ,
and there is none that can interpret it :
and I have heard say of thee ,
that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it .
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And Joseph answered Pharaoh ,
saying ,
It is not in me :
God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace .
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,
In my dream ,
behold ,
I stood upon the bank of the river :
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And ,
behold ,
there came up out of the river seven kine ,
fatfleshed and well favoured ;
and they fed in a meadow :
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And ,
behold ,
seven other kine came up after them ,
poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed ,
such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness :
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And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine :
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And when they had eaten them up ,
it could not be known that they had eaten them ;
but they were still ill favoured ,
as at the beginning .
So I awoke .
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And I saw in my dream ,
and ,
behold ,
seven ears came up in one stalk ,
full and good :
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And ,
behold ,
seven ears ,
withered ,
thin ,
and blasted with the east wind ,
sprung up after them :
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And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears :
and I told this unto the magicians ;
but there was none that could declare it to me .
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And Joseph said unto Pharaoh ,
The dream of Pharaoh is one :
God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do .
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The seven good kine are seven years ;
and the seven good ears are seven years :
the dream is one .
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And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years ;
and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine .
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This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh :
What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh .
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Behold ,
there come seven years of great plenty throughout 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 the land ;
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And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following ;
for it shall be very grievous .
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And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice ;
it is because the thing is established by God ,
and God will shortly bring it to pass .
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Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise ,
and set him over the land of Egypt .
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Let Pharaoh do this ,
and let him appoint officers over the land ,
and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years .
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And let them gather all the food of those good years that come ,
and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh ,
and let them keep food in the cities .
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And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine ,
which shall be in the land of Egypt ;
that the land perish not through the famine .
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And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh ,
and in the eyes of all his servants .
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And Pharaoh said unto his servants ,
Can we find such a one as this is ,
a man in whom the Spirit of God is ?
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,
Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this ,
there is none so discreet and wise as thou art :
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Thou shalt be over my house ,
and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled :
only in the throne will I be greater than thou .
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,
See ,
I have set thee over all the land of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand ,
and put it upon Joseph '
s hand ,
and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen ,
and put a gold chain about his neck ;
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And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ;
and they cried before him ,
Bow the knee :
and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph ,
I am Pharaoh ,
and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt .
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And Pharaoh called Joseph '
s name Zaphnathpaaneah ;
and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On .
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt .
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And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt .
And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh ,
and went throughout all the land of Egypt .
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And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls .
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And 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 round about every city ,
laid he up in the same .
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And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea ,
very much ,
until he left numbering ;
for it was without number .
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And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came ,
which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him .
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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh :
For God ,
said he ,
hath made me forget all my toil ,
and all my father '
s house .
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And the name of the second called he Ephraim :
For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction .
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And the seven years of plenteousness ,
that was in the land of Egypt ,
were ended .
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And the seven years of dearth began to come ,
according as Joseph had said :
and the dearth was in all lands ;
but in all the land of Egypt there was bread .
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And when all the land of Egypt was famished ,
the people cried to Pharaoh for bread :
and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians ,
Go unto Joseph ;
what he saith to you ,
do .
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And the famine was over all the face of the earth :
And Joseph opened all the storehouses ,
and sold unto the Egyptians ;
and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt .
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And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn ;
because that the famine was so sore in all lands .
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt ,
Jacob said unto his sons ,
Why do ye look one upon another ?
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And he said ,
Behold ,
I have heard that there is corn in Egypt :
get you down thither ,
and buy for us from thence ;
that we may live ,
and not die .
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And Joseph '
s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt .
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But Benjamin ,
Joseph '
s brother ,
Jacob sent not with his brethren ;
for he said ,
Lest peradventure mischief befall him .
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And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came :
for the famine was in the land of Canaan .
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And Joseph was the governor over the land ,
and he it was that sold to all the people of the land :
and Joseph '
s brethren came ,
and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth .
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And Joseph saw his brethren ,
and he knew them ,
but made himself strange unto them ,
and spake roughly unto them ;
and he said unto them ,
Whence come ye ?
And they said ,
From the land of Canaan to buy food .
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And Joseph knew his brethren ,
but they knew not him .
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And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them ,
and said unto them ,
Ye are spies ;
to see the nakedness of the land ye are come .
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And they said unto him ,
Nay ,
my lord ,
but to buy food are thy servants come .
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We are all one man '
s sons ;
we are true men ,
thy servants are no spies .
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And he said unto them ,
Nay ,
but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come .
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And they said ,
Thy servants are twelve brethren ,
the sons of one man in the land of Canaan ;
and ,
behold ,
the youngest is this day with our father ,
and one is not .
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And Joseph said unto them ,
That is it that I spake unto you ,
saying ,
Ye are spies :
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Hereby ye shall be proved :
By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence ,
except your youngest brother come hither .
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Send one of you ,
and let him fetch your brother ,
and ye shall be kept in prison ,
that your words may be proved ,
whether there be any truth in you :
or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies .
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And he put them all together into ward three days .
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And Joseph said unto them the third day ,
This do ,
and live ;
for I fear God :
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If ye be true men ,
let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison :
go ye ,
carry corn for the famine of your houses :
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But bring your youngest brother unto me ;
so shall your words be verified ,
and ye shall not die .
And they did so .
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And they said one to another ,
We are verily guilty concerning our brother ,
in that we saw the anguish of his soul ,
when he besought us ,
and we would not hear ;
therefore is this distress come upon us .
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And Reuben answered them ,
saying ,
Spake I not unto you ,
saying ,
Do not sin against the child ;
and ye would not hear ?
therefore ,
behold ,
also his blood is required .
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And they knew not that Joseph understood them ;
for he spake unto them by an interpreter .
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And he turned himself about from them ,
and wept ;
and returned to them again ,
and communed with them ,
and took from them Simeon ,
and bound him before their eyes .
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Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn ,
and to restore every man '
s money into his sack ,
and to give them provision for the way :
and thus did he unto them .
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And they laded their asses with the corn ,
and departed thence .
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And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn ,
he espied his money ;
for ,
behold ,
it was in his sack '
s mouth .
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And he said unto his brethren ,
My money is restored ;
and ,
lo ,
it is even in my sack :
and their heart failed them ,
and they were afraid ,
saying one to another ,
What is this that God hath done unto us ?
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And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan ,
and told him all that befell unto them ;
saying ,
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The man ,
who is the lord of the land ,
spake roughly to us ,
and took us for spies of the country .
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And we said unto him ,
We are true men ;
we are no spies :
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We be twelve brethren ,
sons of our father ;
one is not ,
and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan .
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And the man ,
the lord of the country ,
said unto us ,
Hereby shall I know that ye are true men ;
leave one of your brethren here with me ,
and take food for the famine of your households ,
and be gone :
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And bring your youngest brother unto me :
then shall I know that ye are no spies ,
but that ye are true men :
so will I deliver you your brother ,
and ye shall traffick in the land .
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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks ,
that ,
behold ,
every man '
s bundle of money was in his sack :
and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money ,
they were afraid .
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And Jacob their father said unto them ,
Me have ye bereaved of my children :
Joseph is not ,
and Simeon is not ,
and ye will take Benjamin away :
all these things are against me .
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And Reuben spake unto his father ,
saying ,
Slay my two sons ,
if I bring him not to thee :
deliver him into my hand ,
and I will bring him to thee again .
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And he said ,
My son shall not go down with you ;
for his brother is dead ,
and he is left alone :
if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go ,
then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave .
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And the famine was sore in the land .
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