Genesis 41:14-24

¹⁴Then Pharaoh sent word and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh. ¹⁵Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one can interpret it; and I have heard it said about you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” ¹⁶Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It has nothing to do with me; God will give Pharaoh an answer for his own good.” ¹⁷So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream, there I was, standing on the bank of the Nile; ¹⁸and behold, seven cows, fat and fine-looking came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass. ¹⁹Then behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen for ugliness in all the land of Egypt; ²⁰and the thin and ugly cows ate the first seven fat cows. ²¹Yet when they had devoured them, it could not be detected that they had devoured them, for they were just as ugly as before. Then I awoke. ²²I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears of grain, full and good, came up on a single stalk; ²³and behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind sprouted up after them; ²⁴and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then I told it to the soothsayer priests, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”