20. These devoured and consumed the first,
21. giving no indication of being full. But they remained in the same state of emaciation and squalor. Awakening, but being weighed down into sleep again,
22. I saw a dream. Seven ears of grain sprang up on one stalk, full and very beautiful.
23. Likewise, another seven, thin and struck with blight, rose up from the stalk.
24. And they devoured the beauty of the first. I explained this dream to the interpreters, and there is no one who can unfold it."
25. Joseph responded: "The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.
26. The seven beautiful cows, and the seven full ears of grain, are seven years of abundance. And so the force of the dreams is understood to be the same.
27. Likewise, the seven thin and emaciated cows, which ascended after them, and the seven thin ears of grain, which were struck with the burning wind, are seven approaching years of famine.
28. These will be fulfilled in this order.
29. Behold, there will arrive seven years of great fertility throughout the entire land of Egypt.
30. After this, there will follow another seven years, of such great barrenness that all the former abundance will be delivered into oblivion. For the famine will consume all the land,
31. and the greatness of this destitution will cause the greatness of the abundance to be lost.
32. Now, as to what you saw the second time, it is a dream pertaining to the same thing. It is an indication of its firmness, because the word of God shall be done, and it shall be completed swiftly.
33. Now therefore, let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and place him over the land of Egypt,
34. so that he may appoint overseers throughout all the regions. And let a fifth part of the fruits, throughout the seven fertile years