Genesis 41:39-57 ▼

39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, |Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

40 You will be in charge of my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.|

41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, |Look, I have put you in charge over all the land of Egypt.|

42 Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain around his neck.

43 And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had, and they called out before him, |Bow the knee. | So he put him in charge over the entire land of Egypt.

44 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, |I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will do anything or go anywhere in all the land of Egypt.|

45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. And he gave him Asenath the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. So Joseph went out through the land of Egypt.

46 Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced large harvests.

48 And he collected all the food during the seven years when there was abundance in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He placed in every city the food from the fields surrounding it.

49 Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, because it could not be measured.

50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: |For God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.|

52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim: |For God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.|

53 And the seven years of abundance that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end.

54 Then the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was food.

55 When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, |Go to Joseph. Whatever he says to you, do.|

56 So the famine was over all the surface of the land. Then Joseph opened all the storehouses of grain and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

57 And all the countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.