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They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don`t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
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God is the Source of Insight
The officials were distressed because they couldn't access Egypt's professional dream interpreters from prison. Joseph immediately corrects their worldview, stating that true interpretation doesn't come from human skill but belongs to God alone. Commentators explain this as Joseph redirecting them from pagan experts to the one true source of wisdom.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
An uncomplaining patience and an unhesitating hopefulness keep Joseph's heart in calm tranquility. There is a God above, and that God is with him. …
19th Century
Anglican
There is no interpreter. —In Egypt it was the business of men trained for the purpose, called in Genesis 41:8, magicians …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they said unto him, we have dreamed a dream Each of them: and [there is] no interpreter of it
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