Pharaoh, the tyrant who would eventually enslave the Jewish people, had two dreams. The first involved seven robust cows emerging from the Nile and pasturing in the marshland. Then, seven emaciated cows emerged from the Nile and devoured them. The second dream involved seven healthy ears of grain growing on one stalk and seven thin, […]

No one in Pharaoh’s inner circle was able to interpret his two disturbing dreams. Joseph’s reputation for interpreting dreams was his ticket out of prison and Pharaoh accepted his explanation. A famine was coming but it would be preceded by seven years of plenty. When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried […]