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But Joseph refused. He said, "My master trusts me with everything in his house. He has given me responsibility for everything here.

The woman talked with Joseph every day, but he refused to sleep with her.

His master's wife grabbed his coat and said to him, "Come to bed with me." But Joseph ran out of the house so fast that he left his coat in her hand.

She called to the men outside and said, "Look! This Hebrew slave was brought here to make fun of us. He came in and tried to attack me, but I screamed.

My scream scared him and he ran away, but he left his coat with me."

But when he came near me, I screamed. He ran away, but he left his coat."

The commander of the guards put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners. Joseph was their leader, but he still did the same work they did.

The two men answered, "We both had dreams last night, but we don't understand what we dreamed. There is no one to explain the dreams to us." Joseph said to them, "God is the only one who can understand and explain dreams. So I beg you, tell me your dreams."

But when you are free, remember me. Be good to me and help me. Tell Pharaoh about me so that I can get out of this prison.

In the top basket there were all kinds of baked food for the king, but birds were eating this food."

But Pharaoh hanged the baker, and everything happened the way Joseph said it would.

But the wine server did not remember to help Joseph. He said nothing about him to Pharaoh. The wine server forgot about Joseph.

Then seven more cows came out of the river and stood on the bank of the river by the healthy cows. But these cows were thin and looked sick.

Then he saw seven more heads of grain sprouting, but they were thin and scorched by the hot wind.

The next morning Pharaoh was worried about these dreams, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told these men the dreams, but none of them could explain the dreams.

Joseph answered, "I cannot! But God can explain the dream for you, Pharaoh."

Then I saw seven more cows come up out of the river after them, but these cows were thin and looked sick. They were the worst cows I had ever seen anywhere in Egypt!

but they still looked thin and sick. You couldn't even tell they had eaten the healthy cows. They looked as thin and sick as they did in the beginning. Then I woke up.

And then seven more heads of grain grew after them, but they were thin and scorched by the hot wind.

Then the thin heads of grain ate the seven good heads of grain. "I told these dreams to my magicians. But no one could explain the dreams to me. What do they mean?"