Genesis 41:16-25

DouayRheims(i) 16 Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer. 17 So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river, 18 And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture. 19 And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt: 20 And they devoured and consumed the former, 21 And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again, 22 And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair. 23 Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk: 24 And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it. 25 Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.