15. Pharaoh then said to Joseph: “I had a dream but there was no one to interpret it. But I hear it said of you, ‘If he hears a dream he can interpret it.’”
16. “It is not I,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God who will respond for the well-being of Pharaoh.”
17. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
18. when up from the Nile came seven cows, fat and well-formed; they grazed in the reed grass.
19. Behind them came seven other cows, scrawny, most ill-formed and gaunt. Never have I seen such bad specimens as these in all the land of Egypt!
20. The gaunt, bad cows devoured the first seven fat cows.