15. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said about you that you can hear a dream and interpret it.”
16. “I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
17. So Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18. when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.
19. After them, seven other cows — ugly, very sickly, and thin — came up. I’ve never seen such ugly ones as these in all the land of Egypt.
20. Then the thin, ugly cows ate the first seven well-fed cows.
21. When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.