Genesis 41:16

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 40:8 : 8 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."
  • 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.
  • Acts 3:12 : 12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
  • 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
  • Num 12:6 : 6 He said, "Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
  • 2 Kgs 6:27 : 27 He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"
  • Dan 2:18-23 : 18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20 Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his. 21 He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding; 22 he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. 23 I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter.
  • Dan 2:28-30 : 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: 29 as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen. 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
  • Dan 4:2 : 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
  • Luke 19:42 : 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Acts 3:7 : 7 He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
  • Gen 37:14 : 14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
  • Acts 14:14-15 : 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out, 15 "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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  • Gen 41:15
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    15Pharaoh 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."

  • Gen 40:7-8
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    7He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

    8They 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."

  • Gen 41:25
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    25Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

  • Gen 41:38-41
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    38Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

    39Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

    40You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

    41Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

  • Gen 41:17
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    17Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

  • Gen 50:19
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    19Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

  • Gen 45:7-9
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    7God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

    8So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

    9Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

  • Gen 41:44
    74%

    44Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

  • Gen 41:8
    72%

    8It 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.

  • Gen 41:28
    72%

    28That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

  • Gen 44:15
    71%

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

  • Gen 41:55
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    55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

  • Gen 37:6
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    6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

  • Gen 41:32-33
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    32The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

    33"Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 44:17-18
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    71%

    17He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

    18Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

  • Gen 41:46
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    46Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 45:5
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    5Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

  • Gen 47:5
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    5Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

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

  • Gen 45:16-17
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    16The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

    17Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 45:3
    69%

    3Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

  • Gen 41:1
    69%

    1It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.