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Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn`t in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
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Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
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and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
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and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
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The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
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and when they had eaten them up, it couldn`t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
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I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good:
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and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
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The thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."
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Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.