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Then Pharaoh sent and ^(m)called for Joseph, and they ⁽ⁿ⁾hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, ^(o)but no one can interpret it; and ^(p)I have heard ^[j]it said about you, that ^[k]when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, "^[l](q)It is not in me; ^(r)God will ^[m]give Pharaoh a favorable answer."

So Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

and behold, seven cows, ^[n]fat and sleek came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass.

Lo, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and ^[o]gaunt, such as I had never seen for ^[p]ugliness in all the land of Egypt;

and the lean and ^[q]ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

Yet when they had ^[r]devoured them, it could not be ^[s]detected that they had ^[t]devoured them, ^[u]for they were just as ugly as ^[v]before. Then I awoke.

I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk;

and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then ^(s)I told it to the ^[w]magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."