![]() He recommended Joseph to Pharaoh as a man who interprets dreams.ī. I remember my faults this day: The butler finally remembered Joseph and confessed the wrong he did against him. ![]() He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.” Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him quickly out of the dungeon and he shaved, changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh.Ī. And it came to pass, just as he interpreted for us, so it happened. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us to each man he interpreted according to his own dream. Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream. When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker, we each had a dream in one night, he and I. Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying: “I remember my faults this day. (9-14) Joseph is called in to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams. The interpretation belonged to God, and He didn’t give that knowledge to the magicians of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them: Joseph told the butler and the baker in prison, Do not interpretations belong to God (Genesis 40:8). In his spirit, he knew that there was something important in this.ī. In the morning his spirit was troubled: Pharaoh didn’t take this as merely a crazy dream. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.Ī. Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. We remember Hebrews 1:1-2: God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son. ![]() More normally, God speaks to us through His Word. He may use supernatural means and strange things, even crazy things. So Pharaoh awoke, and indeed, it was a dream: This was a life-like, crazy dream, but it was a message from God. Seven heads of grain came up on one stalk: In a second dream, seven thin heads of grain devoured seven plump and full heads of grain.Ĭ. This strange dream woke him up, but he went back to sleep.ī. There came up out of the river seven cows: In Pharaoh’s dream, seven fat cows came out of the Nile and were consumed by seven ugly and gaunt cows. So Pharaoh awoke, and indeed, it was a dream.Ī. And the seven thin heads devoured the seven plump and full heads. Then behold, seven thin heads, blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them. He slept and dreamed a second time and suddenly seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, plump and good. And the ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. Then behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, ugly and gaunt, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river. Suddenly there came up out of the river seven cows, fine looking and fat and they fed in the meadow. Pharaoh had a dream: The following verses describe Pharaoh’s strange dream. If he had been released earlier, who knows?ī.
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