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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ord M^as with Joseph. He rose infavor with the Governor of the prison, until he wasthere, as he had been with Potiphar, chief overseerand steward of all the place. Now came a new turn in Josej^hs fortunes. Inhis youth he had dreamed prophetic dreams, butscarcely understood them. Now he became a seer;he listened to the prophetic dreams of others, andinterpreted their meaning. In prison with him werePharaohs head butler or cup-bearer and also hishead baker. Each of them dreamed, and Joseph, in-terpreting, told the cup-bearer that he would be re-leased from prison and restored to his office. Hear-ing this the baker, a dark and lowering man, wasencouraged to tell his dream, in which he had carriedbaskets of food for Pharaoh upon his head, and thebirds had plucked at them. Joseph had, alas, nopleasant explanation of this; for the dream meantthat the baker was to be hanged, and the birds wouldfeed upon his flesh. Within three days it happenedto each of these men just as Joseph had declared.
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Sfosiepft pefore ^fjaraolj BY PETER CORNELIUS, FROM THE ORIGINAL INTHE CASA BARTHOLDI AT ROME. The seven good kine are seven years; and theseven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.—Gen., J^l, 26. AT THIS time the shepherd ruler or Pharaohover all Egypt was probably that Apepi ofwhom there are several striking memorialspreserved, especially a portrait statue in the BritishMuseum, which shows him refined and strong anddignified. Joseph at length came to the monarchsnotice through having interpreted the dream of hiscliief cup-bearer. Pharaoh himself dreamed thosetwo well known visions of the seven lean cows whichate up the seven fat ones, and the seven thin ears ofcorn which devoured the seven full ears. None of his interpreters, the professional magi-cians with whom his court was filled, could explainthe meaning of these dreams. Then the cup-bearerremembered Joseph, and told how he had successfullyinterpreted the visions of the cup-bearer and bakerin prison. Thus Joseph was s

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