Genesis 40:8

World English Bible (2000)

They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

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  • Gen 41:15-16 : 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
  • Dan 2:28 : 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
  • Dan 2:47 : 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.
  • Dan 4:8 : 8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him, [saying],
  • Dan 5:11-15 : 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, [I say], your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; 12 because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation. 13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? 14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
  • 1 Cor 12:10-11 : 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. 11 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
  • Job 33:15-16 : 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed; 16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
  • Isa 8:19 : 19 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
  • Dan 2:11 : 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

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    15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

    16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

    17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

  • Gen 37:5-6
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    5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

    6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

  • Gen 41:11-13
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    11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

    12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

    13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."

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    5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

  • Gen 41:24-25
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    24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

    25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

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    8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

  • Dan 2:7
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    7 They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

  • Gen 42:23
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    23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  • Gen 40:9
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    9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

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    7 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

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    15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

  • Dan 2:36
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    36 This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

  • Gen 40:16
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    16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

  • Gen 40:18
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    18 Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

  • Gen 37:19
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    19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

  • Dan 2:9
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    9 But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.

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    9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

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    9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."

    10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

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    19 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

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    12 Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

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    7 Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me its interpretation.