15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”
16 Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.
18 Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
19 Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!
20 The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.
21 When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.