OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 16

Genesis 41:16

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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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Genesis 41:13–19

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As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

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Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

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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.”

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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, seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river. They fed in the marsh grass;

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and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

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