10. There was a time when you were angry with the baker and me, and you put us in prison in the house of the captain of the guard.
11. In prison we each had a dream on the same night, and each dream had a different meaning.
12. A young Hebrew man, a servant of the captain of the guard, was in the prison with us. When we told him our dreams, he explained their meanings to us. He told each man the meaning of his dream, and
13. things happened exactly as he said they would: I was given back my old position, and the baker was hanged.”
14. So the king called for Joseph. The guards quickly brought him out of the prison, and he shaved, put on clean clothes, and went before the king.
15. The king said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one can explain its meaning to me. I have heard that you can explain a dream when someone tells it to you.”
16. Joseph answered the king, “I am not able to explain the meaning of dreams, but God will do this for the king.”
17. Then the king said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile River.
18. I saw seven fat and beautiful cows that came up out of the river and ate the grass.
19. Then I saw seven more cows come out of the river that were thin and lean and ugly—the worst looking cows I have seen in all the land of Egypt.
20. And these thin and ugly cows ate the first seven fat cows,
21. but after they had eaten the seven cows, no one could tell they had eaten them. They looked just as thin and ugly as they did in the beginning. Then I woke up.
22. “I had another dream. I saw seven full and good heads of grain growing on one stalk.