5. He fell asleep again and had another dream. Seven ears of corn, full and ripe, were growing on one stalk.
6. Then seven other ears of corn sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,
7. and the thin ears of corn swallowed the full ones. The king woke up and realized that he had been dreaming.
8. In the morning he was worried, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. He told them his dreams, but no one could explain them to him.
9. Then the wine steward said to the king, “I must confess today that I have done wrong.
45-46. He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah, and he gave him a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis.Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve the king of Egypt. He left the king's court and travelled all over the land.
47. During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundant crops,
48. all of which Joseph collected and stored in the cities. In each city he stored the food from the fields around it.
49. There was so much corn that Joseph stopped measuring it — it was like the sand of the sea.
50. Before the years of famine came, Joseph had two sons by Asenath.
51. He said, “God has made me forget all my sufferings and all my father's family”; so he named his first son Manasseh.
52. He also said, “God has given me children in the land of my trouble”; so he named his second son Ephraim.
53. The seven years of plenty that the land of Egypt had enjoyed came to an end,