01:041:034 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the
land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven
plenteous years.
01:041:035 And let them gather all the food of those good years that
come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food
in the cities.
01:041:036 And that food shall be for store to the land against the
seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the
land perish not through the famine.
01:041:037 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
eyes of all his servants.
01:041:038 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one
as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
01:041:039 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed
thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
01:041:040 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word
shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than
thou.
01:041:041 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all
the land of Egypt.
01:041:042 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a
gold chain about his neck;
01:041:043 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had;
and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all
the land of Egypt.
01:041:044 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee
shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
01:041:045 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he
gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And
Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
01:041:046 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Egypt.
01:041:047 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
handfuls.
01:041:048 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which
were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food
of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
01:041:049 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,
until he left numbering; for it was without number.
01:041:050 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of
famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare
unto him.
01:041:051 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For
God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's
house.
01:041:052 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath
caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
01:041:053 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land
of Egypt, were ended.
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