English Standard Version

Genesis 41:13-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

13. And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged.”

14. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.

15. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

16. Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

17. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.

18. Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.

19. Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.

20. And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,