9. Then the chief officer who served wine to the king said to him, “I remember something I promised to do. But I had forgotten about it.
10. There was a time when you were angry with me and the baker. You put us in prison in the house of the captain of the guard.
11. In prison we each had a dream on the same night. Each dream had a different meaning.
12. A young Hebrew man was in the prison with us. He was a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he explained their meanings to us. He told each man the meaning of his dream.
13. Things happened exactly as he said they would: I was given back my old position, and the baker was hanged.”
14. So the king called for Joseph. The guards quickly brought him out of the prison. He shaved, put on clean clothes and went before the king.
15. The king said to Joseph, “I have had a dream. But no one can explain its meaning to me. I have heard that you can explain a dream when someone tells it to you.”
16. Joseph answered the king, “I am not able to explain the meaning of dreams. God will do this for the king.”
17. Then the king said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile River.
18. I saw seven fat and beautiful cows. They came up out of the river and ate the grass.
19. Then I saw seven more cows come out of the river. They were thin and lean and ugly. They were the worst looking cows I have seen in all the land of Egypt.
20. And these thin and ugly cows ate the first seven fat cows.
21. But after they had eaten the seven cows, no one could tell they had eaten them. They just looked as thin and ugly as they did in the beginning. Then I woke up.