Genesis 41
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Genesis 41:14-24

14Then Pharaoh sent and 1called for Joseph, and they 2hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh. 15Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, 3but no one can interpret it; and 4I have heard 5it said about you, that 6when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 16Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “78It is not in me; 9God will 10give Pharaoh a favorable answer.” 17So Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I was standing on the bank of the Nile; 18and behold, seven cows, 11fat and sleek came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass. 19Lo, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and 12gaunt, such as I had never seen for 13ugliness in all the land of Egypt; 20and the lean and 14ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows. 21Yet when they had 15devoured them, it could not be 16detected that they had 17devoured them, 18for they were just as ugly as 19before. Then I awoke. 22I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk; 23and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them; 24and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then 20I told it to the 21magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 41:14 Ps 105:20 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 41:14 Dan 2:25 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 41:15 Gen 41:8 ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 41:15 Dan 5:16 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 41:15 Lit about you, saying ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 41:15 Lit you hear a dream to interpret it ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 41:16 Lit Apart from me ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 41:16 Dan 2:30; Zech 4:6; Acts 3:12; 2 Cor 3:5 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 41:16 Gen 40:8; 41:25, 28, 32; Deut 29:29; Dan 2:22, 28, 47 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 41:16 Lit answer the peace of Pharaoh ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 41:18 Lit fat of flesh ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 41:19 Lit lean of flesh ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 41:19 Lit badness ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 41:20 Lit bad ↩
  15. 15. Genesis 41:21 Lit entered their inward parts ↩
  16. 16. Genesis 41:21 Or known ↩
  17. 17. Genesis 41:21 Lit entered their inward parts ↩
  18. 18. Genesis 41:21 Lit and ↩
  19. 19. Genesis 41:21 Lit in the beginning ↩
  20. 20. Genesis 41:24 Is 8:19; Dan 4:7 ↩
  21. 21. Genesis 41:24 Or soothsayer priests ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 41

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