These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 41
Tanakh 57 verses
- 1 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 kine, well-favoured and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
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And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and lean-fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
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And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
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And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
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And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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And the thin ears swallowed up 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 was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of , 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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Daniel 4:7 Exodus 7:22 Exodus 7:11 Daniel 1:20 Matthew 2:1 Isaiah 29:14 Daniel 4:5 Daniel 4:19 Isaiah 8:19 Leviticus 19:31 Genesis 40:6 Daniel 5:11 Daniel 2:1-11 Exodus 9:11 Exodus 8:7 Habakkuk 3:16 1 Corinthians 1:19 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Job 5:12-13 Daniel 5:6-8 Acts 17:18 Isaiah 19:3 Isaiah 19:11-13 Isaiah 47:12-13 Psalm 25:14 Daniel 8:27 Daniel 7:28 Genesis 40:8 Acts 7:22 Leviticus 20:6 Daniel 2:27-28 Exodus 8:18-19 Deuteronomy 18:9-14 -
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Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying: ‘I make mention of my faults this day:
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Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in the ward of the house of the captain of the guard, 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 with us there a young man, a Hebrew, 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: I was restored unto mine office, and he was hanged.’
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- 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called , 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 : ‘I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.’
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- 16 And answered Pharaoh, saying: ‘It is not in me; will give Pharaoh an answer of .’
- 17 And Pharaoh spoke unto : ‘In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river.
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And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reedgrass.
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- 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of for badness.
- 20 And the lean and 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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- 22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon 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 swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.’
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- 25 And said unto Pharaoh: ‘The dream of Pharaoh is one; what is about to do He hath declared unto Pharaoh.
- 26 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 lean and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.
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That is the thing which I spoke unto Pharaoh: what is about to do He hath shown unto Pharaoh.
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Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of .
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- 30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of ; 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 which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.
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- 32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by , and 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 .
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- 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of in the seven years of plenty.
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And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
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And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of ; 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, a man in whom the of is?’
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And Pharaoh said unto : ‘Forasmuch as hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.
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- 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy shall all my people be ruled; only in the throne will I be greater than thou.’
- 41 And Pharaoh said unto : ‘See, I have set thee over all the land of .’
- 42 And Pharaoh took off his signet 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: ‘Abrech’; and he set him over all the land of .
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And Pharaoh said unto : ‘I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of .’
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And Pharaoh called Joseph’s Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera of On. And went out over the land of .—
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And was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh of .—And went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of .
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And in the seven years of plenty the earth brought forth in heaps.
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And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of , 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 laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
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And unto were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera of On bore unto him.
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- 51 And called the of the first-born : ‘for hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.’
- 52 And the of the second called he : ‘for hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.’
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And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of , came to an end.
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- 54 And the seven years of famine began to come, according as had said; and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of there was bread.
- 55 And when all the land of was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians: ‘Go unto ; what he saith to you, do.’
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And the famine was over all the of the earth; and opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of .
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And all countries came into to to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
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