4. the poor-looking, gaunt cows devoured the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
5. He fell asleep again and had another dream. He saw seven ears of grain, fat and healthy, growing on a single stalk.
6. Behind them sprouted seven ears of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind;
7. and the thin ears swallowed up the seven fat, healthy ears. Then Pharaoh woke up—it was a dream!
8. Next morning his mind was agitated. So Pharaoh had all the magicians and sages of Egypt summoned and recounted his dream to them; but there was no one to interpret it for him.
9. Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh: “Now I remember my negligence!
10. Once, when Pharaoh was angry with his servants, he put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the chief steward.
11. Later, we both had dreams on the same night, and each of our dreams had its own meaning.
12. There was a Hebrew youth with us, a slave of the chief steward; and when we told him our dreams, he interpreted them for us and explained for each of us the meaning of his dream.
13. Things turned out just as he had told us: I was restored to my post, but the other man was impaled.”
14. Pharaoh therefore had Joseph summoned, and they hurriedly brought him from the dungeon. After he shaved and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh.
15. Pharaoh then said to Joseph: “I had a dream but there was no one to interpret it. But I hear it said of you, ‘If he hears a dream he can interpret it.’”
16. “It is not I,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God who will respond for the well-being of Pharaoh.”
17. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18. when up from the Nile came seven cows, fat and well-formed; they grazed in the reed grass.
19. Behind them came seven other cows, scrawny, most ill-formed and gaunt. Never have I seen such bad specimens as these in all the land of Egypt!