Verse 7
Genesis 41:7
Free Bible Version
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The seven thin and dried heads of grain swallowed up the ripe and healthy ones. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized he'd been dreaming.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תִּבְלַ֨עְנָה֙ הַ/שִּׁבֳּלִ֣ים הַ/דַּקּ֔וֹת אֵ֚ת שֶׁ֣בַע הַֽ/שִּׁבֳּלִ֔ים הַ/בְּרִיא֖וֹת וְ/הַ/מְּלֵא֑וֹת וַ/יִּיקַ֥ץ פַּרְעֹ֖ה וְ/הִנֵּ֥ה חֲלֽוֹם
English Translation
And the thin ears swallowed the seven fat and full ears, and Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
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Chapter 41 Context
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A full two years later, Pharaoh had a dream that he was standing beside the River Nile.
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He saw seven cows coming up from the river. They looked well-fed and healthy as they grazed among th...
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Then he saw another seven cows that came up behind them. They looked ugly and skinny as they stood b...
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Then the ugly, skinny cows ate the well-fed, healthy cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
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Pharaoh fell asleep again and had a second dream. Seven heads of grain were growing on one stalk, ri...
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Then seven heads of grain grew up after them, thin and dried by the east wind.
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The seven thin and dried heads of grain swallowed up the ripe and healthy ones. Then Pharaoh woke up...
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The next morning Pharaoh was worried by his dreams, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men in...
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But then the chief cupbearer spoke up. “Today I've just remembered a bad mistake I've made,” he expl...
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“Your Majesty was angry with some of your officials and you imprisoned me in the house of the comman...
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We each had a dream. They were different dreams, each with its own meaning.
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A young Hebrew was there with us, a slave of the commander of the guard. When we told him our dreams...
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Everything happened just as he said it would—I was given back my job and the baker was hanged.”
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Pharaoh summoned Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the prison. After he'd shaved and changed...
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, but no one can interpret its meaning. But I've heard that wh...
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“It's not me who can do this,” Joseph replied. “But God (Elohim) will explain its meaning to set You...
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Pharaoh explained to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile.
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I saw seven cows coming up from the river. They looked well-fed and healthy as they grazed among the...
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Then I saw another seven cows that came up behind them. They looked sickly and ugly and skinny—I've...
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These skinny, ugly cows ate the first seven healthy-looking cows.
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But afterwards you couldn't tell they'd eaten them because they looked just as skinny and ugly as be...
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Then I fell asleep again. In my second dream I saw seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, ripe a...
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Then seven heads of grain grew up after them, withered and thin and dried by the east wind.
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The seven thin heads of grain swallowed up the healthy ones. I told all this to the magicians, but n...
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“Pharaoh's dreams mean the same thing,” Joseph responded. “God (Elohim) is telling Pharaoh what he i...
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The seven good cows and the seven good heads of grain represent seven good years of harvest. The dre...
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It's just as I told Your Majesty—God (Elohim) has shown Pharaoh what he is going to do.
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But after them will come seven years of famine. People will forget the time when there was plenty of...
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The fact that the dream was repeated twice means that it has definitely been decided by God (Elohim)...
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So Your Majesty should choose a man with insight and wisdom, and put him in charge of the whole coun...
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Your Majesty should also appoint officials to be in charge of the land, and have them collect one-fi...
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They should collect all the food during the good years that are soon coming, and store the grain und...
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This will be a food reserve for the country during the seven years of famine so that the people won'...
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So Pharaoh asked them, “Where can we find a man like this who has the spirit of God (Elohim) in him?...
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Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, telling him, “Since God (Elohim) has revealed to you all this, and the...
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you will be in charge of all my affairs, and all my people will obey your orders. Only I with my sta...
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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Look, I'm putting you in charge of the whole country of Egypt.”
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Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in fi...
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He had Joseph ride in the chariot designated for his second-in-command while his attendants went ahe...
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Then Pharaoh told Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission nobody will lift a hand or a fo...
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Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and arranged for him to marry Asenath, the daughter o...
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Joseph was thirty when he started working for Pharaoh, king of Egypt. After he had left Pharaoh, Jos...
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During the seven years of good harvests, the land produced plenty of food.
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He collected all the food during the seven good years, and he stored the grain produced in the local...
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Joseph piled up so much grain that it was like the sand of the seashore. Eventually he stopped keepi...
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It was during this time, before the years of famine came, that Joseph had two sons by Asenath, the d...
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Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh, because he said, “The Lord has made me forget all my troubles a...
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His second son he named Ephraim, because he said, “God (Elohim) has made me fruitful in the country...
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The seven years of plenty in Egypt came to an end,
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and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other coun...
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When all of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, and he told everyone, “Go an...
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The famine had spread all over the country so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to th...
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in fact the famine was very bad everywhere, so people from other countries all around came to Egypt...
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