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CHAP. XLI.

 

Pharao dreaming of fat and leane kine: 5. also of ful and thinne eares of corne, 8. no other being able to interprete, 9. Ioseph is remembred. 25. Who interpreting the same, 38. is made ruler ouer al Ægypt, 50. marieth, and hath two sonnes, Manasses and Ephraim.

 

AFTER two yeares ^[1] Pharao saw a dreame. He thought he stood vpon a riuer, ²out of the which came vp seuen kine, faire and fat exceedingly: and they fed in marish places. ³Other seuen also came vp out of the riuer, foule, and caryan leane: and they fed on the very banke of the riuer, in green places: ⁴and they deuoured them that had the merueylous beautie and good state of bodies. Pharao after he waked, ⁵slept againe, and saw another dreame: Seuen eares of corne grew forth vpon one stalke ful and faire: ⁶there sprang also other eares as many, thinne and blasted with adustion, ⁷deuouring al the beautie of the former. Pharao awaking vp after his rest, ⁸and when morning was come being frighted with feare, he sent to al the interpreters of Ægypt, and to al the wise men: and they being called for, told them his dreame, neither was there anie that could interprete it. ⁹Then at length the Master of the cup-bearers remembring himselfe, said: I confesse my sinne: ¹⁰The King being angrie with his seruants, commanded me and the chiefe of the bakers to be cast into the prison of the Captaine of the soldiers: ¹¹where in one night both of vs saw a dreame portending things to come. ¹²There was there a yong man an Hebrew, seruant to the same Captaine of the soldiers, to whom telling our dreames, ¹³we heard whatsoeuer afterward the euent of the thing proued to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged vpon a gibbet. ¹⁴Forthwith at the Kings commandement, Ioseph being brought out of the prison they polled him: and changing his apparel, brought him vnto him. ¹⁵To whom he said: I haue seene dreames, and there is not anie that can expound them: which I haue heard, thou doest most wisely interprete. ¹⁶Ioseph answered: Without me, God shal answer prosperous things to Pharao. ¹⁷Pharao therfore told that he had seen: Me thought I stood vpon the banke of the riuer, ¹⁸and seuen kine came vp out of the banke of the riuer, exceeding faire, and ful of flesh: which grazed on green places in a marish pasture. ¹⁹And behold, there folowed these other seuen kine, so passing il fauoured and leane, that I neuer saw the like in the land of Ægypt; ²⁰which hauing deuoured and consumed the former, ²¹gaue no token of their fulnes: but with the like leanenes & deformitie

1. Pharao his dreames, and his Eunuches were prophetical. For by them God forshewed things to come v. 25. yet they were no Prophets, but Ioseph: who had the guift to interpret them. S. Aug. l. 12. c. 9. de Gen. ad lit. S. Greg. l. 11. Moral in c. 13. Iob.