Genesis 41:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”

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  • Dan 5:16 : 16 However, I have heard that you are able to provide interpretations and to solve difficult problems. Now if you are able to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, you will wear purple and have a golden collar around your neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.”
  • Gen 41:9-9 : 9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh,“Today I recall my failures. 10 Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards– me and the chief baker. 11 We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning. 12 Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us. 13 It happened just as he had said to us– Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The LORD’s loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.
  • Dan 5:12 : 12 Thus there was found in this man Daniel, whom the king renamed Belteshazzar, an extraordinary spirit, knowledge, and skill to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Now summon Daniel, and he will disclose the interpretation.”

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    7So he asked Pharaoh’s officials, who were with him in custody in his master’s house,“Why do you look so sad today?”

    8They told him,“We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded,“Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me.”

    9So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph:“In my dream, there was a vine in front of me.

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    16Joseph replied to Pharaoh,“It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”

    17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,“In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

  • Gen 41:24-26
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    24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”

    25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,“Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

    26The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.

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    7The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.

    8In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

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    6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:

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    38So Pharaoh asked his officials,“Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”

    39So Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!

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    11We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

    12Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.

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    14Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh.

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    41“See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph,“I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt.”

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    1Joseph’s Rise to Power At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,

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    5Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream the same night. Each man’s dream had its own meaning.

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    44Pharaoh also said to Joseph,“I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

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    15for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”

    16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph,“I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

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    15Joseph said to them,“What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”

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    55When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt,“Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

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    5Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.

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    8So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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    17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

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    32The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.

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    4The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.