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JOSEPE'B EXALTATION. 43
G. What did Joscph say WRS the meaning ofthe chiefbltker'sdrenm?
7. Wlrrt 11appened at the ba~~rlr~et tlrree daya nfter, on Pharrto'~
birthday? Did the chief butler remember Josepb when rejoicing in
Lin goad fortune?
CHAPTER XXI.
Rehold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.-
Pa. U7, I.
4 TER two years, Phnrao 11hd x dream. We thought ho
A' etood by the river Nilc, out of which came seven cows,
very beautiful and very fat; and they fed in marshy places.
After them came, also, sewn others that were lean and illfavored,
and they devoured the fat ones. Then the Icing
a~volre. He slept again, a11d dreamed anothcr dream, in
which he saw seven enrs of corn growing upon oue stalk ; a d
the enrs were full and fair.
2. After thcsc came up sevcn other ems, thin and blightcd,
dcvourillg all the beauty of the former. Pharao awoke a
second time, and, morning bnving corne, he sent for all the
soothsayers and ~visc rnen of Egypt, and rclatcd to them his
dreams. But no onc was found who could interpret them.
3. Then the chief butler rcmcmbcrcd Joseph, and was
sorry tllnt hc had so long folgotten him. He told the king
that tl~crc was in the prison a Hebrew youth who had inter-
prelcd dreams for him and for the chief baker, and that all
had come to pass just as he said.
4. The king's curiosity being cxcitcd, he ordered the youth
to be brought before him. Thca 110 addressed him, saying:
"I have dreamcd drcams, and there is no one that can ex-
pound them. Now, I have heard that thou art vciy wise at
interpreting them." Joseph ansnpcrcd : " God alone can give
Phwao s prosperous ansmcr." Phrtrao thcn rclated what he
had sccn.