16. “It is not I,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God who will respond for the well-being of Pharaoh.”
17. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18. when up from the Nile came seven cows, fat and well-formed; they grazed in the reed grass.
19. Behind them came seven other cows, scrawny, most ill-formed and gaunt. Never have I seen such bad specimens as these in all the land of Egypt!
20. The gaunt, bad cows devoured the first seven fat cows.
21. But when they had consumed them, no one could tell that they had done so, because they looked as bad as before. Then I woke up.
22. In another dream I saw seven ears of grain, full and healthy, growing on a single stalk.