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Genesis - ch 41 v 41 - 57
- And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
- And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck.
- And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
- And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
- And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
- And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.
- And in the seven years of plenty the land brought forth by handfuls.
- And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.
- And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
- And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On bore to him.
- And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh -- For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
- And the name of the second he called Ephraim -- For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
- And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were ended;
- and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
- And all the land of Egypt suffered from the dearth. And the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he says to you, that do.
- And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was provision, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.
- And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.
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