P:  And the king said:  Lo!  I saw in a dream seven fat kine which seven lean were eating, and seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry.  O notables!  Expound for me my vision, if ye can interpret dreams.

S:  And the king said:  Surely I see seven fat kine which seven lean ones devoured; and seven green ears and (seven) others dry:  O chiefs! explain to me my dream, if you can interpret the dream.

012.044 Y:  They said:  “A confused medley of dreams:  and we are not skilled in the interpretation of dreams.”

P:  They answered:  Jumbled dreams!  And we are not knowing in the interpretation of dreams.

S:  They said:  Confused dreams, and we do not know the interpretation of dreams.

012.045 Y:  But the man who had been released, one of the two (who had been in prison) and who now bethought him after (so long) a space of time, said:  “I will tell you the truth of its interpretation:  send ye me (therefore).”

P:  And he of the two who was released, and (now) at length remembered, said:  I am going to announce unto you the interpretation, therefore send me forth.

S:  And of the two (prisoners) he who had found deliverance and remembered after a long time said:  I will inform you of its interpretation, so let me go: 

012.046 Y:  “O Joseph!” (he said) “O man of truth!  Expound to us (the dream) of seven fat kine whom seven lean ones devour, and of seven green ears of corn and (seven) others withered:  that I may return to the people, and that they may understand.”

P:  (And when he came to Joseph in the prison, he exclaimed):  Joseph!  O thou truthful one!  Expound for us the seven fat kine which seven lean were eating and the seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry, that I may return unto the people, so that they may know.

S:  Yusuf!  O truthful one! explain to us seven fat kine which seven lean ones devoured, and seven green ears and (seven) others dry, that I may go back to the people so that they may know.

012.047 Y:  (Joseph) said:  “For seven years shall ye diligently sow as is your wont:  and the harvests that ye reap, ye shall leave them in the ear,- except a little, of which ye shall eat.”

P:  He said:  Ye shall sow seven years as usual, but that which ye reap, leave it in the ear, all save a little which ye eat.

S:  He said:  You shall sow for seven years continuously, then what you reap leave it in its ear except a little of which you eat.

012.048 Y:  “Then will come after that (period) seven dreadful (years), which will devour what ye shall have laid by in advance for them,- (all) except a little which ye shall have (specially) guarded.”

P:  Then after that will come seven hard years which will devour all that ye have prepared for them, save a little of that which ye have stored.

S:  Then there shall come after that seven years of hardship which shall eat away all that you have beforehand laid up in store for them, except a little of what you shall have preserved: