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May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.
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Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
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We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
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Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:
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He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.
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After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind.
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The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.
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“In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.
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After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.
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The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.”
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The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream.
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The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.
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They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food.
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Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
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When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.
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And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.
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Joseph’s Brothers Go to Egypt
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?”
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He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
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Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.
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Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
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If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
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Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man’s silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them,
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they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
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So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
