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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, ^(C1)but no one can interpret it; and ^(C2)I have heard ^(F1)it said about you, that ^(F2)when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, "^(F1)(C1)It has nothing to do with me; ^(C2)God will ^(F2)give Pharaoh an answer for his own good."

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

and behold, seven cows, ^(F1)fat and fine-looking came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass.

"Then behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ^(F1)ugly and ^(F2)thin, such as I had never seen for ^(F3)ugliness in all the land of Egypt;

and the thin and ugly cows ate the first seven fat cows.

"Yet when they had ^(F1)devoured them, it could not be ^(F2)detected that they had ^(F1)devoured them, ^(F3)for they were just as ugly as ^(F4)before. Then I awoke.

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

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

and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then ^(C1)I told it to the soothsayer priests, but there was no one who could explain it to me."