In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.

Let them gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. Under Pharaoh’s authority, store the grain in the cities, so they may preserve it as food.

They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Get up. Pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?

He saw that his resting place was good and that the land was pleasant, so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load and became a forced laborer.

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.