1. And it came to be, at the end of two years’ time, that Pharaoh had a dream, and saw him standing by the river,
2. and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, fine looking and fat, and they fed amongst the reeds,
3. then saw seven other cows coming up after them out of the river, ugly and lean of flesh, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.
4. And the ugly and lean of flesh cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.
5. And he slept and dreamed a second time and saw seven heads of grain coming up on one stalk, plump and good,
6. and saw seven lean heads, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them.
7. And the seven lean heads swallowed the seven plump and complete heads. Then Pharaoh awoke and saw it was a dream.
8. And it came to be in the morning that his spirit was moved, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Mitsrayim and all its wise men. And Pharaoh related to them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.
9. Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my crimes this day.
10. “When Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker,
11. each one of us dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream.