Genesis 41:14-24

14Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon. He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.

15Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said about you that you can hear a dream and interpret it.”

16“I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

17So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,

18when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and grazed among the reeds.

19After them, seven other cows — weak, very sickly, and thin — came up. I’ve never seen such sickly ones as these in all the land of Egypt.

20Then the thin, sickly cows ate the first seven well-fed cows.

21When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.

22In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stalk.

23After them, seven heads of grain — withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind — sprouted up.

24The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”