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They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:

And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.

And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could interpret it.

Forthwith at the king’s command Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to him.

And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.

And they devoured and consumed the former,

And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.

And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.

And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao, for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you.

And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.

And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man’s money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.

And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?

And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:

When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being astonished together,