16. and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, `Without me--God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.'
17. And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: `In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River,
18. and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat [in] flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds;
19. and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean [in] flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.
20. `And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,
21. and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance [is] bad as at the commencement; and I awake.
22. `And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good;
23. and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them;
24. and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.'
25. And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, `The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh;
26. the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one;
27. and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine;
28. this [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh.
29. `Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt,
30. and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land,