Genesis 41:18-37

18And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they fed in the reed-grass.

19And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed — such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.

20And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;

21and they came into their belly, and it could not be known that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke.

22And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good.

23And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them;

24and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me.

25And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. What 1God will do he has made known to Pharaoh.

26The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

27And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine.

28This is the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what 2God is about to do he has let Pharaoh see.

29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt.

30And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.

31And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.

32And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by 3God, and 4God will hasten to do it.

33And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

34Let Pharaoh do [this]: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,

35and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep [it].

36And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.

37And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his bondmen.