1. After two years had passed, the king of Egypt dreamt that he was standing by the River Nile,
2. when seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the river and began to feed on the grass.
3. Then seven other cows came up; they were thin and bony. They came and stood by the other cows on the river bank,
4. and the thin cows ate up the fat cows. Then the king woke up.
5. He fell asleep again and had another dream. Seven ears of corn, full and ripe, were growing on one stalk.
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.