3. Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.
4. The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
5. Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.
6. Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.
7. The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.
8. In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
9. Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
10. Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker.
11. We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.
12. Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.
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.
21. When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.
22. I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.