Genesis 41:15-17

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Genesis 41:15 tn Heb “dreamed a dream.”
2. Genesis 41:15 tn Heb “there is no one interpreting.”
3. Genesis 41:15 tn Heb “saying.”
4. Genesis 41:15 tn Heb “you hear a dream to interpret it,” which may mean, “you only have to hear a dream to be able to interpret it.”
5. Genesis 41:16 tn Heb “not within me.”
6. Genesis 41:16 tn Heb “God will answer.”
7. Genesis 41:16 tn The expression שְׁלוֹם פַּרְעֹה (sh^elom parʿoh) is here rendered “the welfare of Pharaoh” because the dream will be about life in his land. Some interpret it to mean an answer of “peace”—one that will calm his heart, or give him the answer that he desires (cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT).
8. Genesis 41:17 tn Heb “In my dream look, I was standing.” The use of the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) here (and also in vv. 18, 19, 22, 23) invites the hearer (within the context of the narrative, Joseph, but in the broader sense the reader or hearer of the Book of Genesis) to observe the scene through Pharaoh’s eyes.