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Pharaoh’s Dream

Two years past, and Joseph is still in prison. The cup bearer has not remembered him. Then one night Pharaoh has two dreams, and he wonders what they mean. The next morning Pharaoh calls all his wise man and tells them the things that he has dreamed. But all of them are unable to explain the meaning of his dreams.

Now the cupbearer at last remembers Joseph. He says to Pharaoh, “When I was in prison there was a man who is able to interpret the meaning of dreams. Pharaoh brought Joseph out of prison right away.

Pharaoh tells Joseph his dreams:-

“ I saw seven fat, beautiful cows, then I saw seven thin and bony cows. Then thin cows ate up the fat ones. Second dream, I saw seven heads of full, ripe grain growing on the stalk. Then I saw seven thin, dried out heads of grain, and the thin heads of grain began to swallow up the seven good heads of grain.

Then Joseph says to Pharaoh, both dreams bring the same meaning. The seven fat cows and the seven full heads of the grain means seven more years. There will be seven years when a lot of food will grow in Egypt. Then there will be seven years when very little food will grow.’
So Pharaoh advised Pharaoh to choose a wise man and put him in-charge of collecting food during the seven good years. By doing this the people will not starve during the following seven bad years.
Pharaoh likes the idea and he chooses Joseph to collect the food and to store it up. Joseph becomes the most important man in Egypt next to Pharaoh.

Eight years later his ten brothers came to Egypt to get some food because in Canaan they were running out of food. Joseph recognizes his brothers, but they do not. At that time Joseph remembers the dream he had when he was a boy.

Joseph was 17 years old when he was taken to Egypt. Joseph was alone and do not have any friends there. When the trader arrived in Egypt he was sold to Potiphar, captain of Pharoah’s bodyguard.

Joseph had enjoyed everything he wanted in his father’s house but now he is a slave. It must be very hard for him but he made up his mind to do his best in all circumstances. What ever he was asked to do he did well and this made Potiphar very happy. One day Potiphar call Joseph and gave him a surprised. He was given a big promotion to look after his house and estate.

All went well until Potiphar’s wife cause trouble. She tried to get Joseph to do something very wrong but when he refused to that, she seeking revenge, she told lies to her husband about Joseph and Potiphar ordered Joseph to be taken to prison.

Even in prison Joseph was very kind, thoughtful and helpful that made the jailer put him in-charge of other prisoners. What a fine young man he must be! Later Pharaoh the king becomes angry with his cupbearer and his baker and puts them into prison. One night they had special dreams but they do not know the meaning of the dreams. The next day Joseph asked them to tell him their dreams and with God’s help he explains the meaning of their dreams.

To the cupbearer, Joseph says: “In three days you will be let out of prison, and you will become Pharoah’s cupbearer again”. He continued: “When you get out from here, please tell Pharoah about me and help me to get out from here. To the baker, he says’ “In just three days Pharoah will have your head cut off”.

In three days it just happens just as Joseph said. But the cupbearer forgets all about Joseph. He did not make any afford to bring Joseph out from the prison.