Genesis 41:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;

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  • Gen 20:3 : 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.
  • Gen 29:14 : 14 And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.
  • Gen 31:21 : 21 So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.
  • Gen 37:5-9 : 5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever. 6 And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream. 7 We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine. 8 And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever. 9 Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me. 10 And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?
  • Gen 40:5 : 5 And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.
  • Exod 4:9 : 9 And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.
  • Deut 11:10 : 10 For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:
  • Judg 7:13-14 : 13 When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth. 14 And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.
  • Esth 6:1 : 1 That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,
  • Job 33:15-16 : 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds; 16 Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;
  • Isa 19:5 : 5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.
  • Ezek 29:9 : 9 And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.
  • Dan 2:1-3 : 1 In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him. 2 Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king. 3 And the king said to them, I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled by the desire to have the dream made clear to me.
  • Dan 4:5-9 : 5 I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head. 6 And I gave orders for all the wise men of Babylon to come in before me so that they might make clear to me the sense of my dream. 7 Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me. 8 But at last Daniel came in before me, he whose name was Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I put the dream before him, saying, 9 O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense. 10 On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high. 11 And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth: 12 Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things. 13 In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, 14 Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: 15 But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts. 16 Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him. 17 This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men. 18 This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
  • Dan 7:1-8 : 1 In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing. 2 I had a vision by night, and saw the four winds of heaven violently moving the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another. 4 The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings; while I was watching its wings were pulled off, and it was lifted up from the earth and placed on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 5 And I saw another beast, like a bear, and it was lifted up on one side, and three side-bones were in its mouth, between its teeth: and they said to it, Up! take much flesh. 6 After this I saw another beast, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings like those of a bird; and the beast had four heads, and the power of a ruler was given to it. 7 After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns. 8 I was watching the horns with care, and I saw another coming up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were pulled up by the roots: and there were eyes like a man's eyes in this horn, and a mouth saying great things.
  • Matt 27:19 : 19 And while he was on the judge's seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that upright man, for I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.

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  • Gen 41:17-20
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    17 Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

    18 And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

    19 Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

    20 And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

  • Gen 41:2-12
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    2 And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

    3 And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

    4 And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.

    5 But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

    6 And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

    7 And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

    8 And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

    9 Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me now;

    10 Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and had put me in prison in the house of the captain of the army, together with the chief bread-maker;

    11 And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

    12 And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

  • Gen 41:25-33
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    25 Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

    26 The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

    27 The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

    28 As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.

    29 Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

    30 And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

    31 And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

    32 And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.

    33 And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 41:14-15
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    14 Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

    15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

  • Gen 41:46
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    46 Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 40:1-2
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    1 Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders;

    2 And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;

  • Gen 40:5
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    5 And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

  • Gen 37:6
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    6 And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

  • Gen 41:22
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    22 And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

  • Gen 41:53
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    53 And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

  • Gen 41:41
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    41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 41:37
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    37 And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.

  • Gen 37:19
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    19 Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

  • Dan 2:1
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    1 In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.