Genesis 40:9-19
9So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me, 10and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. 11Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.” 12Then Joseph said to him, a“This is its interpretation: bthe three branches are three days. 13In three days Pharaoh will clift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. 14Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. 15For dI was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and ehere also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, 17and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.” 18And Joseph answered and said, f“This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days. 19 gIn three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hhang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”
Genesis 41:15-36
15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. iI have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 16Joseph answered Pharaoh, j“It is not in me; kGod will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.” ▼▼Or (compare Samaritan, Septuagint) Without God it is not possible to give Pharaoh an answer about his welfare
17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, min my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile. 18Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass. 19Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt. 20And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows, 21but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke. 22I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good. 23Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them, 24and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And nI told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.” 25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; oGod has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. 26The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one. 27The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also pseven years of famine. 28It is as I told Pharaoh; qGod has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do. 29There will come rseven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, 30but after them there will arise sseven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. tThe famine will consume the land, 31and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe. 32And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the uthing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about. 33Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land ▼
▼Or over the land and organize the land
of Egypt during the seven plentiful years. 35And wlet them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 36That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.” Judges 7:13-15
13When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.” 14And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”15As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand.”
Daniel 2:4-5
4Then xthe Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, ▼▼The text from this point to the end of chapter 7 is in Aramaic
z“O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” 5The king answered and said to aathe Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be abtorn limb from limb, acand your adhouses shall be laid in ruins. Daniel 4:18
18This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O aeBelteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because afall the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for agthe spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
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