Bible Verses About Egypt

And the cup of Pharao was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.

Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:

After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou was wont to do.

Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:

For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon.

The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream, said: I also dreamed a dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon my head:

And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.

Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:

After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.

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:

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.

Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk:

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

Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.