Genesis 41

1At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.Cross-references: Gen 20:3 · Gen 29:14 · Gen 31:21 · Gen 37:5 · Gen 40:5 · Ex 1:22 · +12 more

2Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.Cross-references: Isa 19:6

3Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.Cross-references: Gen 41:4 · Gen 41:20

4The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.Cross-references: 1Ki 3:15

5He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.Cross-references: Deut 32:14

6Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.Cross-references: Ezek 17:10 · Ezek 19:12 · Hos 13:15

7The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.Cross-references: Gen 20:3 · Gen 37:5

8In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.Cross-references: Gen 40:6 · Gen 40:8 · Ex 7:11 · Ex 7:22 · Ex 8:7 · Ex 8:18 · +27 more

9Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.Cross-references: Gen 40:1 · Gen 40:14 · Gen 40:23

10Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.Cross-references: Gen 37:36 · Gen 39:20 · Gen 40:2

11We dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.Cross-references: Gen 40:5

12There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.Cross-references: Gen 37:36 · Gen 39:1 · Gen 39:20 · Gen 40:12

13As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”Cross-references: Gen 40:12 · Gen 40:20 · Jer 1:10 · Ezek 43:3

14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.Cross-references: Ex 10:16 · 1Sam 2:7 · 2Sam 19:24 · 2Ki 25:29 · Esth 4:1 · Esth 5:1 · +6 more

15Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”Cross-references: Gen 41:9 · Ps 25:14 · Dan 5:12 · Dan 5:16

16Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”Cross-references: Gen 37:14 · Gen 40:8 · Num 12:6 · 2Ki 6:27 · Dan 2:18 · Dan 2:28 · +8 more

17Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;

18and behold, seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river. They fed in the marsh grass;Cross-references: Jer 24:1 · Jer 24:5 · Jer 24:8

19and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

20The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;

21and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.Cross-references: Ps 37:19 · Isa 9:20 · Ezek 3:3 · Rev 10:9

22I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;

23and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.Cross-references: Gen 41:6 · 2Ki 19:26 · Ps 129:6 · Hos 8:7 · Hos 9:16 · Hos 13:15

24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”Cross-references: Gen 41:8 · Ex 8:19 · Dan 4:7

25Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.Cross-references: Gen 41:16 · Ex 9:14 · Josh 11:6 · Ps 98:2 · Isa 41:22 · Isa 43:9 · +8 more

26The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.Cross-references: Gen 2:24 · Gen 40:12 · Gen 40:18 · Gen 41:2 · Gen 41:5 · Gen 41:29 · +6 more

27The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:19 · 2Ki 8:1

28That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.Cross-references: Gen 41:16 · Gen 41:25

29Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.Cross-references: Gen 41:26 · Gen 41:46 · Gen 41:49

30Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,Cross-references: Gen 41:21 · Gen 41:27 · Gen 41:51 · Gen 41:54 · Gen 41:56 · Gen 47:13 · +8 more

31and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.Cross-references: 1Sam 5:6 · Isa 24:20

32The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.Cross-references: Gen 37:7 · Gen 37:9 · Num 23:19 · Job 33:14 · Isa 14:24 · Isa 30:33 · +8 more

33“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 41:39 · Ex 18:19 · Deut 1:13 · Dan 4:27 · Acts 6:3

34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.Cross-references: Num 31:14 · 2Ki 11:11 · 2Chr 34:12 · Neh 11:9 · Job 5:20 · Ps 33:19 · +4 more

35Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.Cross-references: Gen 41:48 · Gen 41:56 · Gen 45:6 · Ex 4:13

36The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”Cross-references: Gen 47:13

37The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.Cross-references: Josh 22:30 · 2Sam 3:36 · 1Ki 21:2 · Ps 105:19 · Prov 10:20 · Prov 25:11 · +1 more

38Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”Cross-references: Num 27:18 · Job 32:8 · Dan 4:6 · Dan 4:8 · Dan 4:18 · Dan 5:11 · +2 more

39Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.Cross-references: Gen 41:16 · Gen 41:25 · Gen 41:28 · Gen 41:33

40You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”Cross-references: Gen 39:4 · Gen 45:8 · Gen 45:26 · 1Sam 10:1 · Job 31:27 · Ps 2:12 · +6 more

41Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”Cross-references: Gen 39:5 · Gen 39:22 · Gen 41:44 · Gen 42:6 · Esth 10:3 · Prov 17:2 · +6 more

42Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.Cross-references: Esth 3:10 · Esth 3:12 · Esth 6:7 · Esth 8:2 · Esth 8:8 · Esth 8:10 · +14 more

43He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 42:6 · Gen 42:30 · Gen 42:33 · Gen 45:8 · Gen 45:26 · Esth 6:8 · +2 more

44Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”Cross-references: Ex 11:7 · Ps 105:22

45Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 14:18 · Gen 46:20 · Ex 2:16 · 2Sam 8:18 · 2Sam 20:26 · Ezek 30:17 · +2 more

46Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 37:2 · Num 4:3 · 1Sam 16:21 · 2Sam 5:4 · 1Ki 12:6 · 1Ki 12:8 · +5 more

47In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Ps 72:16

48He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.Cross-references: Gen 41:34 · Gen 47:21

49Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Judg 6:5 · Judg 7:12 · 1Sam 13:5 · Job 1:3 · Ps 78:27 · +1 more

50To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.Cross-references: Gen 41:45 · Gen 46:20 · Gen 48:5 · 2Sam 8:18

51Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”Cross-references: Gen 41:30 · Gen 48:5 · Gen 48:13 · Gen 48:18 · Deut 33:17 · Ps 30:5 · +5 more

52The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”Cross-references: Gen 17:6 · Gen 28:3 · Gen 29:32 · Gen 30:6 · Gen 48:16 · Gen 49:22 · +5 more

53The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.Cross-references: Gen 41:29 · Ps 73:20 · Luke 16:25

54The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.Cross-references: Gen 41:3 · Gen 41:6 · Gen 41:27 · Gen 41:30 · Gen 42:2 · Gen 42:5 · +5 more

55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”Cross-references: Gen 41:40 · 2Ki 6:25 · Ps 105:20 · Jer 14:1 · Lam 4:3 · Matt 3:17 · +4 more

56The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 42:6 · Gen 47:14 · Isa 23:17 · Zech 5:3 · Luke 21:35 · Acts 17:26

57All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.Cross-references: Gen 41:54 · Gen 41:56 · Gen 42:1 · Gen 42:5 · Gen 50:20 · Deut 9:28 · +1 more