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Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger

Genesis 40:7

Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547 · Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Genesis 40:7 (WEB)

He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

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  • “…low spirits, and, guessing that this was not the case without reason, addressed us in these words of the patriarch Joseph: “Why are your faces sad today?” to whom we answered: We are not like those bond slaves of Pharaoh who have seen a dream and there is none to interpret it, but I admit that we have passed a…” — editor's note: Gen. xl. 7.

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