16. And Yosĕph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me, let Elohim answer Pharaoh with peace.”
17. And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “See, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river
18. and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, fine looking and fat, and they fed amongst the reeds,
19. then saw seven other cows coming up after them, poor and very ugly and lean of flesh, such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of Mitsrayim.
20. “And the lean of flesh and ugly cows ate up the first seven, the fat cows.
21. “Yet when they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.
22. “Also, I looked in my dream and saw seven heads coming up on one stalk, complete and good,
23. then saw seven heads, withered, lean, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them.
24. “And the lean heads swallowed the seven good heads. And I spoke to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
25. And Yosĕph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. Elohim has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do:
26. “The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years – it is one dream.
27. “And the seven lean and ugly cows which came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty heads scorched by the east wind are seven years of scarcity of food.