35. They should collect all the food of these coming good years, gathering the grain under Pharaoh’s authority, for food in the cities, and they should guard it.
36. This food will serve as a reserve for the country against the seven years of famine that will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish in the famine.”
37. This advice pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.
38. “Could we find another like him,” Pharaoh asked his servants, “a man so endowed with the spirit of God?”
39. So Pharaoh said to Joseph: “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you are.
40. You shall be in charge of my household, and all my people will obey your command. Only in respect to the throne will I outrank you.”
41. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Look, I put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”
42. With that, Pharaoh took off his signet ring and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
43. He then had him ride in his second chariot, and they shouted “Abrek!” before him.Thus was Joseph installed over the whole land of Egypt.
44. “I am Pharaoh,” he told Joseph, “but without your approval no one shall lift hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”