Verse 16
Genesis 41:16
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Forthwith at the king's command, Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him, and changing his apparel, brought him in to him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּ֨עַן יוֹסֵ֧ף אֶת פַּרְעֹ֛ה לֵ/אמֹ֖ר בִּלְעָדָ֑/י אֱלֹהִ֕ים יַעֲנֶ֖ה אֶת שְׁל֥וֹם פַּרְעֹֽה
English Translation
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me; God will answer Pharaoh's peace."
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Chapter 41 Context
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After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,
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Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
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Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and leanfleshed: and they fed on the very b...
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And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.
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He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:
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Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,
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And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest:
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And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to...
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Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:
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The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison...
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Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
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There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told o...
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And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office...
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Forthwith at the king's command, Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him, and chan...
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And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have hea...
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Joseph answered: Without me, God (Elohim) shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.
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So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,
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And seven kine came up out of the river exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on gr...
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And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that I never saw...
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And the devoured and consumed the former,
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And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill favoured as before. I awoke, and...
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And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, full and very fair.
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Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stock:
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And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no m...
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Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God (Elohim) hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.
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The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the s...
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And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted...
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Which shall be fulfilled in this order:
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Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt:
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After which shall follow other seven years of so great scacity, that all the abundance before shall...
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And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.
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And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of t...
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Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of E...
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That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fr...
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That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up under Pharao's hands and be reserved...
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And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, an...
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The counsel pleased Pharao and all his servants.
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And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God (Elohim)?
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He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God (Elohim) hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find...
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Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey: only in...
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And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt.
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And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of sil...
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And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee...
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And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao; without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in...
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And he turned his name, and called him in the Eyyptian tounge, The saviour of the world. And he gave...
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(Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao) and he went round all the countries o...
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And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corm being bound up into sheaves was gathered...
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And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.
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And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty...
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And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth the daughter of Putiphare priest...
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And he called the name of the first born Manasses, saying: God (Elohim) hath made me to forget all m...
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And he named the second Epharaim, saying: God (Elohim) hath made me to grow in the land of my povert...
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Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past:
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The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in t...
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And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao for food. And he said to t...
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And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egy...
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And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
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Verse Information
- Book
- Genesis
- Chapter
- Chapter 41 (58 verses)
- Version
- Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition