Genesis 41
12 years
2and
3After
4Then those
5Then
6After
7Then
8The So Pharaoh’s workers went and got all those men, and they brought them to Pharaoh. Then Pharaoh told them about those 2 dreams that he had. But none of those men understood what the dreams meant.
9Pharaoh
10You
11Then one
12But there
13And 1 Joseph told Pharaoh what his dreams meant
14Then
15Pharaoh
16Joseph
17So
18Then
19After
20Then those
21But
22Then
23After
24Then those 7 groups of Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “ I talked to the men that can do magic, and I told them about those dreams that I had. But they don’t know what my dreams mean.”
25Then
26Then Joseph told Pharaoh what
27Then
28Then
29For
30But
31Those
32Sir, God is
33Then
34-35 Then you have to pick some other men to work for him. And those men have to go all over Egypt country, and they have to gather up food from all the farms. Every time the farmers have food plants with seeds that are ready to make flour, those workers have to say to the farmers, ‘This is what Pharaoh says you have to do. Split up that food into 5 piles, and give one pile to us.’ Then those workers have to put that food in big sheds in the towns, and they have to look after it. They have to keep on doing that for 7 years, while there is lots and lots of food in Egypt country.
35
36At 1 Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of Egypt country
37Pharaoh
38And
39Then
40So
41After
42Pharaoh
43Then In that way, Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of all of Egypt country.
44Pharaoh
45-46 Then Pharaoh gave Joseph a That’s the story about how Joseph became Pharaoh’s most important worker, and he started to be in charge of Egypt country. At that time, Joseph was 30 years old. Then Joseph left Pharaoh’s house, and he went all around Egypt country. 1 Joseph got the Egypt people to put food in sheds
46
47The
48So
49There 1 Joseph had 2 sons
50Joseph Joseph and Asenath had 2 sons. Both those sons were born at the time when there was still lots of food growing in Egypt country.
51Joseph
52Joseph named 1 There was no rain and no food plants
53For
54Then The same thing happened in all the other countries around Egypt too. There was no rain and no food plants growing in those countries, so the people in those countries didn’t have enough food. But there was still lots of food in those big sheds in Egypt.
55-56 This is what happened in Egypt country at the time when the rain stopped coming. It got dry all over Egypt country, and the food plants everywhere stopped growing. It got really bad, and all the Egypt people started to get hungry. So they went to Pharaoh, and they said to him, “Please, please give us food.” Then Pharaoh said to all the Egypt people, “Go to Joseph, and do whatever he tells you.” * 41:55-56 John 2:5 So they went to Joseph, and they asked him for food. Then Joseph got his workers to go to all the towns in Egypt country and open those big sheds. There was lots of food in those sheds from the 7 good years. So Joseph’s workers started to sell that food to the Egypt people.
56
57And