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Genesis 41:32

Pharaoh
God's will and calling

30 but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

31 The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.

33 Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

34 Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.
KJV
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
WEB
The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
ASV
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
DARBY
And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God will hasten to do it.
BLB
And as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice—it is because the thing [is] established by God, and God is hastening to do it.
ÅB
Men at drømmen kom to ganger for Farao, det vil si at saken er fast besluttet av Gud, og at Gud vil gjøre det snart.
OTB
Grunnen til at drømmen ble gitt til farao i to former er at saken er fast bestemt av Gud, og Han vil utføre den snart.
B1930
Men at drømmen kom to ganger for Farao, det vil si at saken er fast besluttet av Gud, og at Gud vil gjøre det snart.

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Cross references

  • Numbers 23:19

    God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

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  • Isaiah 46:10–11

    I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

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  • Isaiah 14:24–27

    The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

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  • 2 Corinthians 13:1

    This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

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  • Matthew 24:35

    Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

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  • 1 Corinthians 2:9

    Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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  • Revelation 9:15

    So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

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  • Genesis 37:7

    We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

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