22. In my dream I had also seen seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, coming up on one stalk.
23. After them, seven heads of grain — withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind — sprouted up.
24. The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”
25. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
26. The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.
27. The seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless, scorched heads of grain are seven years of famine.
28. “It is just as I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.
29. Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt.
30. After them, seven years of famine will take place, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land.
31. The abundance in the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows it, for the famine will be very severe.