41:17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing 4 by the edge of the Nile. 41:18 Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds. 5 41:19 Then 6 seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows 7 as these in all the land of Egypt! 41:20 The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven 8 fat cows. 41:21 When they had eaten them, 9 no one would have known 10 that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up. 41:22 I also saw in my dream 11 seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good. 41:23 Then 12 seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them. 41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this 13 to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.” 14
41:25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. 15 God has revealed 16 to Pharaoh what he is about to do. 17