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Genesis
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English: Webster's Bible |
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Genesis 41 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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| 37. |
And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. |
| 38. |
And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a man as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God is? |
| 39. |
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: |
| 40. |
Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. |
| 41. |
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. |
| 42. |
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; |
| 43. |
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. |
| 44. |
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. |
| 45. |
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him for a wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On: and Joseph went over all the land of Egypt. |
| 46. |
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. |
| 47. |
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfulls. |
| 48. |
And he gathered 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 around every city, he laid up in the same. |
| 49. |
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number. |
| 50. |
And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came: which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bore to him. |
| 51. |
And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. |
| 52. |
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. |
| 53. |
And the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. |
| 54. |
And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. |
| 55. |
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he saith to you, do. |
| 56. |
And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine became severe in the land of Egypt. |
| 57. |
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was distressing in all lands. |
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