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Genesis 41:13-20 New English Translation (NET)

13. It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”

14. Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh.

15. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”

16. Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”

17. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

18. Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

19. Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!

20. The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.

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