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Joseph said: This is the meaning of your dream. The three branches stand for three days,

The top basket was full of all kinds of baked things for the king, but birds were eating them."

Three days later, while the king was celebrating his birthday with a dinner for his officials, he sent for his personal servant and the chief cook.

The king sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of jail. He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to the king.

The seven good cows stand for seven years, and so do the seven good heads of grain.

The seven skinny, ugly cows that came up later also stand for seven years, as do the seven bad heads of grain that were scorched by the east wind. The dreams mean there will be seven years when there won't be enough grain.

For seven years Egypt will have more than enough grain,

He also let him ride in the chariot next to his own, and people shouted, "Make way for Joseph!" So Joseph was governor of Egypt.

Joseph was thirty when the king made him governor, and he went everywhere for the king.

For seven years there were big harvests of grain.

When the famine finally struck Egypt, the people asked the king for food, but he said, "Go to Joseph and do what he tells you to do."

Joseph kept them all under guard for three days,

Reuben spoke up, "Didn't I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn't listen, and now we have to pay the price for killing him."

Joseph gave orders for his brothers' grain sacks to be filled with grain and for their money to be put in their sacks. He also gave orders for them to be given food for their journey home. After this was done,

When they stopped for the night, one of them opened his sack to get some grain for his donkey, and right away he saw his moneybag.

Also take along twice the amount of money for the grain, because there must have been some mistake when the money was put back in your sacks.

But when we stopped for the night, we each found in our grain sacks the exact amount we had paid. We have brought that money back,

Right away he rushed off to his room and cried because of his love for Benjamin.

You ordered us to bring him here, so you could see him for yourself.

One of them was already missing and had not been seen for a long time. My father thinks the boy was torn to pieces by some wild animal,