The Beginning (Genesis) 41

1 At the end of two full years, the Great House (Pharaoh) dreamed a dream: He stood by the river.

2 Up out of the river came seven beautiful, healthy milk cows; and they fed in a meadow.

3 Then, seven other milk cows came up after them out of the river. They were ugly and skinny. They stood by the other milk cows on the bank of the river.

4 The ill ugly, skinny milk cows ate up the seven beautiful and healthy milk cows. So the Great House (Pharaoh) awoke.

5 He went to sleep and dreamed the second time. This time, seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, fat and good.

6 Then seven thin ears scorched by the east wind sprung up after them.

7 The seven thin ears devoured the seven fat and full ears. Then Great House (Pharaoh) woke from the dream.

8 That morning his spirit was troubled. He sent messages and called for all the magicians of Double Straights (Egypt), and all the wise men there too. Then Great House (Pharaoh) told them his dream; but none of them could interpret them for the Great House (Pharaoh).

9 Then the chief butler spoke to Great House (Pharaoh), saying, “I remember my faults this day:

10 The Great House (Pharaoh) was angry with his servants, and put me in prison in the captain of the guard's house, along with the chief baker:

11 We each dreamed a dream one night and we both wanted an interpretation of our dream.

12 There was a young man with us there, a One From Beyond (Hebrew), servant to the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted to us; giving each of us a different interpretation.

13 And it came to pass, just as he interpreted to us. I was restored to my office, and he was hanged.”

14 Then Great House (Pharaoh) sent for Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved, and changed his raiment, and came to Great House (Pharaoh).

15 Great House (Pharaoh) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one that can interpret it: and I have heard you can understand a dream to interpret it.”

16 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) answered the Great House (Pharaoh), saying, “It is not in me: God ('Elohiym) shall give Great House (Pharaoh) an answer of peace.”

17 Great House (Pharaoh) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “In my dream, I stood on the bank of the river.

18 And, out of the river there came up seven milk cows, fat and perfectly formed; and they fed in a meadow:

19 And, behold, seven other milk cows came up after them. They were poor and very sick and skinny. I have never seen anything as bad in all the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

20 The lean and the sickly milk cows devoured the first seven fat milk cows:

21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them. They were still thin and sickly, as they were at the beginning. Then I awoke.

22 Again I dreamed: Seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

23 Then seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

24 The thin ears devoured the seven good ears. I told this to the magicians; but none of them could interpret for me.”

25 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) said to the Great House (Pharaoh), The dreams of the Great House (Pharaoh) are one: God ('Elohiym) has showed the Great House (Pharaoh) what He is about to do.

26 The seven good milk cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dreams are the same.

27 The seven thin and sickly milk cows that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind will be seven years of famine.

28 This is the thing as I have spoken to you, Great House (Pharaoh): What God ('Elohiym) is about to do he has shown to the Great House (Pharaoh).

29 There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Double Straights (Egypt):

30 Then there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Double Straights (Egypt); and the famine shall consume the land;

31 The abundance will not be perceived in the land because of the famine that follows. It will be very bad.

32 The Great House (Pharaoh) was given this dream twice; it is because the thing is established by God ('Elohiym), and God ('Elohiym) will shortly bring it to pass.

33 Now therefore let The Great House (Pharaoh) look for a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

34 Give him the authority of The Great House (Pharaoh) , and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Double Straights (Egypt) in the seven plenteous years.

35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of the Great House (Pharaoh), and let them keep food in the cities.

36 And that food shall be to store for the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Double Straights (Egypt); that the land perish not through the famine.

37 And the thing was good in the eyes of the Great House (Pharaoh), and in the eyes of all his servants.

38 Great House (Pharaoh) said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God ('Elohim) is?

39 Then the Great House (Pharaoh) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “Since God ('Elohiym) has shown you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you:

40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than you.”

41 The Great House (Pharaoh) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “See, I have set you over all the land of Double Straights (Egypt).”

42 And the Great House (Pharaoh) took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)'s hand, and arrayed him in clothing of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

43 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 Double Straights (Egypt).

44 The Great House (Pharaoh) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “I am the Great House (Pharaoh), and without you no man will lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Double Straights (Egypt).”

45 And the Great House (Pharaoh) called Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)'s name Treasury of the Glorious Rest (Zaphnath-paaneah); and he gave him Belonging to Water Weaver (Neith - Virgin Mother, the goddess of war) the daughter of He Whom the Ra Gave (Poti-pherah), priest of Strength and Vigor (On), for a wife. And Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) went out over all the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

46 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) was thirty years old when he stood before the Great House (Pharaoh) king of Double Straights (Egypt). Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) went out from the presence of the Great House (Pharaoh), and went throughout all the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years in the land of Double Straights (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.

49 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) gathered grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

50 And to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Belonging to Water Weaver (Neith - Virgin Mother, the goddess of war) the daughter of He Whom the Ra Gave (Poti-pherah) priest of Strength and Vigor (On) bore unto him.

51 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) called the name of the firstborn Causing to Forget (Manasseh). “For God,” he said, “has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.”

52 And the name of the second called he Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim): “ For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

53 The seven years of plenty in the land of Double Straights (Egypt), were ended.

54 Then the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) had said and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Double Straights (Egypt) there was bread.

55 When all the land of Double Straights (Egypt) was famished, the people cried to the Great House (Pharaoh) for bread: and the Great House (Pharaoh) said to all the Egyptians, Go to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph). What he says to you, do.

56 Now the famine was over all the face of the earth. Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine drug on in the land of Double Straights (Egypt).

57 And all countries came to Double Straights (Egypt) to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) for to buy grain; because the famine was so bad in all lands.