Joseph Is Brought Before Pharaoh

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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.

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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:

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

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

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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.

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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:

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And they devoured and consumed the former,

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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,

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

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

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