6. And behold, feven thin ears, and blafted with the eaft-wind, fprung up after them.

7. And the feven thin ears devoured the feven rank and full ears: and Pharaoh awoke, and behold it was dream.

8. And it came to pass in the morning, that his fpirit was troubled; and he fent, and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wife men thereof; and Pharaoh told them bis dream: but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaob.

9. Then Spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, faying, I do remember my faults this day.

8. The Magicians: i.e. Interpreters, fays the Greek Verfion They were a fort of skill in interpreting Men profeffing a Dreams, Dan. 2. 10, and that ufed inchantments, Exod. 8. 18.

9. My faults: i. e. My offences against thee. He might also remember now his

ingratitude to Jofeph, ch. 40. 14, 23.

10. Pharaoh was wroth with his fervants, 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, 1 and be: we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

12. And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, fervant to the captain of the guard and we told him, and be 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, fo it was; me he reftored unto mine office, and him be hanged.

13. Him he hanged: i.e. He did fore tell what afterward came to pass, that he fhould be hanged.

14. Then

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14. Then Pharaoh fent, and called fofeph, and they brought bim baftily out of the dungeon: and be shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharab.

14. Out of the dungeon: Where he was poffibly miniftring to the Prifoners who his charge.

were committed to

15. And Pharaoh faid unto Jofeph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have beard fay of thee, that thou canst understand a dream, to interpret it.

16. And Jofeph answered Pharaoh, faying, It is not in me: God fall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

16. It is not in me:

God, &c. See chap.

40.8.

17. And Pharaoh faid unto Jofeph, In my dream, bebold, I ftood upon the bank of the river,

18. And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed, and well-favoured, and they fed in a medow.

19. And behold, feven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-favoured, and lean-fefhed, fuch as I never faw in all the land of Egypt for badness.

20. And the lean, and the ill-favoured kine, did eat up the firft feven fat kine.

21. And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them, but they were ftill illfavoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22. And I faw in my dream, and behold, feven ears tame up in one stalk, full and good.

them.

23. And behold, feven ears withered, thin, and blafted with the east-wind, Sprung up after 24. And the thin ears devoured the feven good ears and I told this unto the magicians, but there was none that could declare it unto me.

24. None that could: Which confirms the truth of what Jofeph had faid before, v. 16. and ch. 40, 8.

25. And

25. And Jofeph faid unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaob is one: God hath fhewed Pharaoh what he is about to do:

26. The seven good kine are feven years: and the feven good ears are feven years; the dream is one.

27. And the feven thin, and ill-favoured kine that came up after them, are feven years: and the feven empty ears blafted with the eaft-wind, fhall be feven years of fa

mine.

28. This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaob: what God is about to do, he fheweth unto Pharaob.

29. Behold, there come feven years of great plenty, throughout all the land of Egypt.

30. And there fhall arife after them feven years of famine, and all the plenty fhall be forgotten in the land of Egypt: and the famine fhall confume the land.

30. Shall be forgotten: i. e. It halk be as if it had not fon of the Famine been at all, by rea

which was to fucceed.

The Land: e. The People of the Land, fays the Chaldee.

31. And the plenty fhall not be known in the land, by reafon of that famine following: for it shall be very grie

32. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God: and God will fhortly bring it to pass.

32. Established: i.e. Fully confirmed. The Greek render it

word fignifies that true which Greek

which is not onely

true, but fufficiently confirmed and attefted, Joh. 5. 31. and ch. 8. 13, 14.

33. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man difcreet and wife, and fet him over the land of Egypt.

34. Let Pharaoh do this, and tet him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the feven plen

teous years.

point, as doth alfo the Greek word

34 Let Pharaoh do this, &c. Or, Let

Pharaoh constitute we render do, figniand appoint. What fies to make or apwhich answers to it.

See Mark 3. 14. and Acts 2. 36. Of the Land: i. e. Of the growth and increase of the Land.

35. And let them gather all the food of thofe 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 ftore to the land, against the feven years of famine which fhall be in the land of Egypt, that the land perifh not through the famine.

35.Under the hand of Pharaoh: Under the hand of Pharaoh, Pharaoh fhould apor of those whom

point.

36. Store: Not to be touched till the Famine came.

37. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his fervants.

38. And Pharaoh faid unto his Servants, Can we find fuch a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

38. In whom the Spirit of God is: cludes from the inThis Pharaoh conterpretation which 70

Jeph had given of his Dream, (Dan. 5.11.) as alfo from Jofeph's words, v. 16. The Chaldee hath it, the Spirit of Prophecy.

39. And Pharaoh faid unto Jofeph, Forasmuch as God bath fhewed thee all this, there is none fo difcreet and wife

as theu art.

46. Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word fhall all my people be ruled only in the throne will I be greater then thou.

40. Over my house: He made him Lord of all his fubftance, Pfal. his houfe, and ruler of

105.21. Shall all my

people

people be ruled: i.e. They fhall be obedient, as the Vulgar and Greek Verfions have it. He had power to bind his Princes at his pleasure, Pfal. 105. 22. Act. 7. 10.

41. And Pharaoh Said unto Jofeph, See, I have fet thee over all the land of Egypt.

42. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it up on Fofeph's band, and arayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

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43. And he made him to ride in the fecond chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

42. His ring: As a mark of his favour to Jofeph, and perwhich he gave him, haps of the authority Efth.3.10. and 8.2.

43. In the fecond Chariot: As an ar gument that he was

next in honour to the King himself,2 Chron. 35.24. Efther 6. 2. Bow the knee: They were to do homage to Jofeph as to the second perfon in the Kingdom, as one who was the Father of the King and Country, ch. 45.8. The Chaldee renders it, This is the Father of the King.

44 And Pharaoh faid unto Fofeph, 1 am Pharaoh, and without thee fhall no man lift up his hand or -foot in all the land of Egypt.

44. I am Pharaoh: i.e. I am King: Pharaoh was the com

mon Name of the King, as Ptolomy was

in after-times, Gen. 12. 15. And as the Prolomies were diftinguished by other additional or proper Names, fo were the. Pharaohs alfo. Thus we read of Pharaoh-necob 2 Kings 23.9. compare fer. 44. 30. And thus were the Cafars among the Romans diftinguifhed from one another. Pharaoh in this place implies the Soveraign authority, as is implied by what follows, Without thee shall no man lift up his hand, &c. i. e. No man fhall have power to do any thing without his leave, at least not against his will.

45. And Pharaoh called Joseph's name, Zaphnath-Paaneab: and he gave him to wife Afenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On: and

45. Zaphnath-paaneah: A revealer of fecrets, fays Jofephus. Priest: Or, Prince

and