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He asked them, "Why do you look so worried today?"

The two men answered, "We both had dreams last night, but we don't understand what we dreamed. There is no one to explain the dreams to us." Joseph said to them, "God is the only one who can understand and explain dreams. So I beg you, tell me your dreams."

So the wine server told Joseph his dream. The server said, "I dreamed I saw a vine.

I was holding Pharaoh's cup, so I took the grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I gave the cup to Pharaoh."

But when you are free, remember me. Be good to me and help me. Tell Pharaoh about me so that I can get out of this prison.

The baker saw that the other servant's dream was good, so he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream. I dreamed there were three baskets of bread on my head.

The next morning Pharaoh was worried about these dreams, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told these men the dreams, but none of them could explain the dreams.

So Pharaoh called Joseph from the prison. The guards quickly got Joseph out of prison. Joseph shaved, put on some clean clothes, and went to see Pharaoh.

It will be so bad that people will forget what it was like to have plenty of food.

So, Pharaoh, you should choose a wise, intelligent man and put him in charge of Egypt.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "God showed these things to you, so you must be the wisest man.

Then Pharaoh gave Joseph another name, Zaphenath Paneah. He also gave Joseph a wife named Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of On. So Joseph became the governor over the whole country of Egypt.

Joseph stored so much grain that it was like the sands of the sea. He stored so much grain that it could not be measured.

There was famine everywhere, so Joseph gave the people grain from the warehouses. He sold the stored grain to the people of Egypt. The famine was bad in Egypt,

but the famine was bad everywhere. So people from the countries around Egypt had to come to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain.

During the famine in Canaan, Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt. So he said to his sons, "Why are you sitting here doing nothing?

I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go there and buy grain for us so that we will live and not die!"

So ten of Joseph's brothers went to Egypt to buy grain.

The famine was very bad in Canaan, so there were many people from Canaan who went to Egypt to buy grain. Among them were the sons of Israel.

They said to each other, "We are being punished for the bad thing we did to our younger brother Joseph. We saw the trouble he was in. He begged us to save him, but we refused to listen. So now we are in trouble."