Book of Jubilees
Anonymous
Chapter 40
About this work
A Jewish rewriting of Genesis and the opening of Exodus, presented as revelation given to Moses on Mount Sinai. The work organizes sacred history through weeks and jubilees and places particular emphasis on covenant, calendar, festivals, and observance of the Law.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Date
- Second century BC
- Origin
- Judea (probable)
- Genre
- Rewritten Scripture / Pseudepigrapha
- Textual language
- Originally Hebrew; complete text principally preserved in Ethiopic.
- Translator
- R. H. Charles
- Translation / Edition
- R. H. Charles translation, first published 1917.
And in those days Pharaoh dreamed two dreams in one night concerning a famine which was to be in all the land,
and he awoke from his sleep and called all the interpreters of dreams that were in Egypt, and magicians, and told them his two dreams, and they were not able to declare (them).
And then the chief butler remembered Joseph and spake of him to the king,
and he brought him forth from the prison, and he told his two dreams before him.
And he said before Pharaoh that his two dreams were one,
and he said unto him: "Seven years will come (in which there will be) plenty over all the land of Egypt, and after that seven years of famine, such a famine as hath not been in all the land.
And now let Pharaoh appoint overseers in all the land of Egypt, and let them store up food in every city throughout the days of the years of plenty, and there will be food for the seven years of famine, and the land will not perish through the famine, for it will be very severe."