Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Genesis 41:45-51 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

45. He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah. And he let him marry Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis. Joseph travelled all over Egypt.

46. Joseph was thirty when the king made him governor, and he went everywhere for the king.

47. For seven years there were big harvests of grain.

48. Joseph collected and stored up the extra grain in the cities of Egypt near the fields where it was harvested.

49. In fact, there was so much grain that they stopped keeping record, because it was like counting the grains of sand along the beach.

50. Joseph and his wife had two sons before the famine began.

51. Their first son was named Manasseh, which means, “God has let me forget all my troubles and my family back home.”