1After two years Pharao had a dream. He…
2Out of which came up seven kine, very…
3Other seven also came up out of the…
4And they devoured them, whose bodies were very…
5He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven…
6Then seven other ears sprung up thin and…
7And devoured all the beauty of the former.…
8And when morning was come, being struck with…
9Then at length the chief butler remembering, said:…
10The king being angry with his servants, commanded…
11Where in one night both of us dreamed…
12There was there a young man a Hebrew,…
13And we heard what afterwards the event of…
14Forthwith at the king’s command, Joseph was brought…
15And he said to him: I have dreamed…
16Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao…
17So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought…
18And seven kine came up out of the…
19And behold, there followed these, other seven kine,…
20And they devoured and consumed the former,
21And yet gave no mark of their being…
22And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn…
23Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of…
24And they devoured the beauty of the former:…
25Joseph answered: The king’s dream is one: God…
26The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full…
27And the seven lean and thin kine that…
28Which shall be fulfilled in this order:
29Behold, there shall come seven years of great…
30After which shall follow other seven years of…
31And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy…
32And for that thou didst see the second…
33Now therefore let the king provide a wise…
34That he may appoint overseers over all the…
35That shall now presently ensue: and let all…
36And let it be in readiness, against the…
37The counsel pleased Pharao and all his servants.
38And he said to them: Can we find…
39He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath…
40Thou shalt be over my house, and at…
41And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I…
42And he took his ring from his own…
43And he made him go up into his…
44And the king said to Joseph: I am…
45And he turned his name, and called him…
46(Now he was thirty years old when he…
47And the fruitfulness of the seven years came:…
48And all the abundance of grain was laid…
49And there was so great abundance of wheat,…
50And before the famine came, Joseph had two…
51And he called the name of the firstborn…
52And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God…
53Now when the seven years of the plenty…
54The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had…
55And when there also they began to be…
56And the famine increased daily in all the…
57And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy…
