Liber Genesis

Genesis, chapter 41, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 41 Vulgate

   1 Post duos annos vidit pharao somnium. Putabat se stare super fluvium,
   2 de quo ascendebant septem boves pulchrae et crassae et pascebantur in locis palustribus.
   3 Aliae quoque septem emergebant post illas de flumine foedae confectaeque macie et stabant in ipsa amnis ripa;
   4 devoraveruntque septem boves pulchras et crassas. Expergefactus pharao
   5 rursum dormivit et vidit alterum somnium. Septem spicae pullulabant in culmo uno plenae atque formosae.
   6 Aliae quoque totidem spicae tenues et percussae vento urente oriebantur
   7 devorantes omnem priorum pulchritudinem. Evigilavit pharao, et ecce erat somnium!
   8 Et, facto mane, pavore perterritus misit ad omnes coniectores Aegypti cunctosque sapientes suos; et accersitis narravit somnium, nec erat qui interpretaretur.
   9 Tunc demum reminiscens pincernarum magister ait: "Confiteor peccatum meum.
   10 Iratus rex servis suis me et magistrum pistorum retrudi iussit in carcerem principis satellitum,
   11 ubi una nocte uterque vidimus somnium praesagum futurorum.
   12 Erat ibi puer Hebraeus eiusdem ducis satellitum famulus, cui narrantes somnia
   13 audivimus quidquid postea rei probavit eventus. Ego enim redditus sum officio meo, et ille suspensus est in patibulo"
   14 Protinus ad regis imperium eductum de carcere Ioseph totonderunt ac, veste mutata, obtulerunt ei.
   15 Cui ille ait: "Vidi somnia, nec est qui edisserat; quae audivi te sapientissime conicere"
   16 Respondit Ioseph: "Absque me Deus respondebit prospera pharaoni!"
   17 Narravit ergo pharao, quod viderat: "Putabam me stare super ripam fluminis
   18 et septem boves de amne conscendere pulchras nimis et obesis carnibus, quae in pastu paludis virecta carpebant.
   19 Et ecce has sequebantur aliae septem boves in tantum deformes et macilentae, ut numquam tales in terra Aegypti viderim;
   20 quae, devoratis et consumptis prioribus,
   21 nullum saturitatis dedere vestigium; sed simili macie et squalore torpebant. Evigilans, rursus sopore depressus,
   22 vidi somnium: Septem spicae pullulabant in culmo uno plenae atque pulcherrimae.
   23 Aliae quoque septem tenues et percussae vento urente oriebantur e stipula;
   24 quae priorum pulchritudinem devoraverunt. Narravi coniectoribus somnium, et nemo est qui edisserat"
   25 Respondit Ioseph: "Somnium regis unum est: quae facturus est, Deus ostendit pharaoni.
   26 Septem boves pulchrae et septem spicae plenae septem ubertatis anni sunt; eandemque vim somnii comprehendunt.
   27 Septem quoque boves tenues atque macilentae, quae ascenderunt post eas, et septem spicae tenues et vento urente percussae septem anni sunt venturae famis,
   28 qui hoc ordine complebuntur:
   29 ecce septem anni venient fertilitatis magnae in universa terra Aegypti;
   30 quos sequentur septem anni alii tantae sterilitatis, ut oblivioni tradatur cuncta retro abundantia. Consumptura est enim fames omnem terram,
   31 et ubertatis magnitudinem perditura est inopiae magnitudo.
   32 Quod autem vidisti secundo ad eandem rem pertinens somnium, firmitatis indicium est, eo quod fiat sermo Dei et velocius a Deo impleatur.
   33 Nunc ergo provideat rex virum intellegentem et sapientem et praeficiat eum terrae Aegypti
   34 constituatque praepositos per cunctas regiones et quintam partem fructuum per septem annos fertilitatis,
   35 qui iam nunc futuri sunt, congreget in horrea; et omne frumentum sub pharaonis potestate condatur serveturque in urbibus;
   36 et paretur futurae septem annorum fami, quae pressura est Aegyptum, et non consumetur terra inopia"
   37 Placuit pharaoni consilium et cunctis ministris eius.
   38 Locutusque est ad eos: "Num invenire poterimus talem virum, qui spiritu Dei plenus sit?"
   39 Dixit ergo ad Ioseph: "Quia ostendit tibi Deus omnia, quae locutus es, numquid sapientiorem et consimilem tui invenire potero?
   40 Tu eris super domum meam, et ad tui oris imperium cunctus populus meus oboediet; uno tantum regni solio te praecedam"
   41 Dixitque rursus pharao ad Ioseph: "Ecce, constitui te super universam terram Aegypti"
   42 Tulitque anulum de manu sua et dedit eum in manu eius; vestivitque eum stola byssina et collo torquem auream circumposuit.
   43 Fecitque eum ascendere super currum suum secundum, clamante praecone: "Abrech!" ut omnes coram eo genuflecterent et praepositum esse scirent universae terrae Aegypti.
   44 Dixit quoque rex ad Ioseph: "Ego sum pharao; absque tuo imperio non movebit quisquam manum aut pedem in omni terra Aegypti"
   45 Vertitque nomen eius et vocavit eum lingua Aegyptiaca Saphaneth Phanec (quod interpretatur Salvator mundi) deditque illi uxorem Aseneth filiam Putiphare sacerdotis Heliopoleos. Egressus est itaque Ioseph ad terram Aegypti
   46 triginta autem annorum erat quando stetit in conspectu regis pharaonis et circuivit omnes regiones Aegypti.
   47 Venitque fertilitas septem annorum, et segetes congregavit in horrea Aegypti
   48 condens in singulis urbibus frumentum camporum in circuitu.
   49 Tantaque fuit abundantia tritici, ut arenae maris coaequaretur, et copia mensuram excederet.
   50 Nati sunt autem Ioseph filii duo, antequam veniret fames, quos ei peperit Aseneth filia Putiphare sacerdotis Heliopoleos.
   51 Vocavitque nomen primogeniti Manasses dicens: "Oblivisci me fecit Deus omnium laborum meorum et domus patris mei"
   52 Nomen quoque secundi appellavit Ephraim dicens: "Crescere me fecit Deus in terra paupertatis meae"
   53 Igitur, transactis septem annis ubertatis, qui fuerant in Aegypto,
   54 coeperunt venire septem anni inopiae, quos praedixerat Ioseph, et in universo orbe fames praevaluit; in cuncta autem terra Aegypti erat panis.
   55 Qua esuriente, clamavit populus ad pharaonem alimenta petens. Quibus ille respondit: "Ite ad Ioseph et, quidquid vobis dixerit, facite"
   56 Et invaluit fames in omni terra Aegypti; aperuitque Ioseph universa horrea et vendebat Aegyptiis; nam et illos oppresserat fames.
   57 Omnesque provinciae veniebant in Aegyptum, ut emerent escas apud Ioseph, quia inopia invaluerat in universa terra.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
   2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
   3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
   4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
   5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
   6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
   7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
   8 And 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 the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
   9 ¶ Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
   10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
   11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
   12 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
   13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
   14 ¶ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
   15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
   16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
   17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
   18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
   19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
   20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
   21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
   22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
   23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
   24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
   25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
   26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
   27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
   28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
   29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
   30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
   31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
   32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
   33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
   34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
   35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
   36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
   37 ¶ And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
   38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
   39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
   40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
   41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
   42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
   43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
   44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
   45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
   46 ¶ And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
   47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
   48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
   49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
   50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
   51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
   52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
   53 ¶ And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
   54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
   55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
   56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
   57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.