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.
