Midrash su Genesi 41:25

the spirit of God in vested Joseph and he knew at once all what was to hap pen unto the king ‎in the future, and also the correct interpretation of his dream. And when Joseph spoke unto ‎the king he found grace in his eyes and the king inclined his ear and his heart unto the words of ‎Joseph. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, let not my king believe that there are two dreams, for ‎really it is only one dream. The seven good cows and the seven good ears are seven years; and ‎the seven lean cows and the seven blasted ears are seven years likewise. The dream is one, ‎be hold there comes seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, and there ‎shall rise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of ‎Egypt and the famine shall con sume all the inhabitants of the land. The king has dreamed but ‎one dream, 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; and now I will advise thee how to save ‎thy soul and the soul of all the inhabitants of the land from the evil of the famine. Search thou ‎in all thy kingdom for a man wise and discreet, acquainted with the affairs of the state, and set ‎him over the land of Egypt. And that man whom thou will set over the land of Egypt shall ‎appoint his subordinate officers to gather in all the food of the good years that are to come ‎and lay corn in thy store houses, and this food shall be for store to the land against the seven ‎years of famine which will suffice for thee and for thy men and for all thy lands, that the land ‎perish not through the famine. And command the inhabitants of thy lands likewise, that each ‎of them gather up, from the production of his field, all sorts of food during the seven good ‎years, and to lay it up in their store houses, so that they find it during the day of the famine, to ‎be kept alive. This is the correct inter pretation of thy dream, and this is the only means of ‎saving thy soul and the souls of all thy servants. And the king answered unto Joseph and he ‎said: Who can tell and who can know whether thy words be correct: And he said unto the king: ‎This be a sign unto thee concerning the correctness of my words, and the value of my advice. ‎Behold thy wife will bear a son unto thee this day and thou wilt rejoice with him, but when this ‎child will be born unto thee, thy first born son, which hath been born two years since will die, ‎and thou wilt be comforted through the child born unto thee this day. And when Joseph had ‎finished his speech, he bowed down before the king and went away.‎

And scarcely had Joseph departed from the presence of the king when all the signs of which ‎Joseph had spoken came true. And the queen gave birth to a son on that day, and when the ‎king heard the tidings he rejoiced greatly on account of his son, and when the messenger had ‎gone away from the presence of the king, the king's servants found the first born son of the ‎king lying dead upon the ground. And there was great crying and lamenting in the king's house, ‎and the king heard and he said: What is the cause of that great weeping and lamenting which I ‎have heard in the house? And they informed the king that his first born son was dead, and he ‎knew also at the same time that all the words which Joseph had spoken were good. And the ‎king was comforted at the loss of his son through the child born unto him that day, according ‎to the words of Joseph. And after these things the king sent and he assembled all his princes ‎and subjects, and all the governors of the king's provinces, and all of them came before the ‎king, and the king spoke unto them concerning Joseph, and he said: Behold you have both ‎heard and seen everything concerning the words of this Hebrew man, and also all his signs, ‎and not the least of his words hath fallen to the ground. And now you know that his ‎interpretation of my dream is correct and that it will surely come true, do therefore consult ‎together what hath to be done in order to save the country from the famine. Investigate and ‎search ye whether there is to be found around here a man with so much wisdom and ‎knowledge in his heart and I will set him over the land. And ye have heard the advice of the ‎Hebrew man concerning this matter, to save thereby the whole land from famine, and I am ‎convinced that there is no other means of saving the land except by his advice. And they ‎answered all unto the king saying: The counsel is good which the Hebrew hath offered ‎concerning this matter. And now, oh my lord, behold all thy lands is in thy hand and ‎whatsoever pleaseth thee best do thou, and whomsoever thou choosest, and whomsoever ‎thou believest in thy wisdom to be wise enough to save the country in his wisdom he is the ‎man whom the king should appoint to have the whole land in his power. And the king said ‎unto all his officers: I have thought that forasmuch as the Lord hath made known unto this ‎Hebrew all these things there is none so discreet and wise as he is through all the land. And if it ‎seems good in your eyes, I will set him over the land, for he will deliver the country in all his ‎wisdom.‎