Jacob, Joseph & Egypt

And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:

The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn.

But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.

After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

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.

He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:

Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,

And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest:

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.

Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:

The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers.

Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.

There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,

And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.

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 he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them:

Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.

So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,

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 behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill-favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:

And they devoured and consumed the former,

And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,

And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair.