Joseph Interprets Dreams - NIV

Joseph Probably Did Not Consider His Prison Experience to Be His First Choice as a Learning Situation. But He Did Try to Serve God Faithfully Wherever He Found Himself.

1. Joseph Interprets Dreams.

Genesis 40:1-4 Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt. [2] ____________ was angry with his two ________________, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, [3] and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was ______________. [4] The captain of the guard ______________ them to Joseph, and he ______________ them. After they had been in custody for some time,

Genesis 40:5-8 Each of the two men--the ________________ and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison--had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. [6] When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected. [7] So he asked ________________ ________________ who were in custody with him in his ______________ house, "Why are your faces so sad today?" [8] "We both had dreams," they answered, "but there is no one to ________________ them." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not ________________ations belong to God? Tell me your dreams."

Genesis 40:9-15 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, "In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, [10] and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its ______________ ripened into grapes. [11] Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, ______________ them into Pharaoh's cup and put the cup in his hand." [12] "This is what it means," Joseph said to him. "The three branches are three days. [13] Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your ______________, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. [14] But when all goes well with you, ______________ me and show me ______________; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. [15] For I was ______________ carried off from the land of the ____________, and even here I have done ____________ to ____________ being put in a ____________."

Genesis 40:16-23 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a ________________ interpretation, he said to Joseph, "I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread. [17] In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head." [18] "This is what it means," Joseph said. "The three baskets are three days. [19] Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat away your flesh." [20] Now the third day was Pharaoh's ______________, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He __________ up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the ______________ of his officials: [21] He ______________ the chief cupbearer to his ______________, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand, [22] but he __________ the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation. [23] The chief cupbearer, ____________, did not ______________ Joseph; he __________ him.

Sometimes we learn things in hard times that we forget when times get better.

2. God Gives Joseph the Answer to the Pharaoh's Question.

Genesis 41:1-8 When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was ______________ by the Nile, [2] when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. [3] After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the ________________. [4] And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. [5] He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were ____________ on a single stalk. [6] After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted--thin and ______________ by the east wind. [7] The thin heads of grain ________________ up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream. [8] In the ____________ his mind was ______________, so he sent for all the ________________ and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his __________, but no one could ________________ them for him.

Genesis 41:14-16 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and ____________ his ____________, he came before Pharaoh. [15] Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." [16] "I cannot do it," Joseph ____________ to Pharaoh, "but God will give Pharaoh the answer he ____________."

Genesis 41:17-24 Then ____________ said to Joseph, "In my dream I was ______________ on the bank of the Nile, [18] when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. [19] After them, seven other cows came up--scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. [20] The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. [21] But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as __________. Then I woke up. [22] "In my __________ I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, ____________ on a __________ stalk. [23] After them, seven other heads sprouted--withered and thin and ______________ by the east wind. [24] The thin heads of grain ________________ up the seven good heads. I told this to the ________________, but none could ____________ it to me."

1. How many fat cows came up out of the Nile River? ___________

2. How many gaunt cows? ____________

3. What did the gaunt cows do to the fat cows? _______________________

4. How was the dream about the seven full ears and the seven withered ears the same? ____________________________________

5. How many years would the famine last? _____________.

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