Gen 41:37-57 | ESV | STEP | This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants .

Genesis 41:37-57

Joseph Rises to Power

37 This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. 38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, ^ain whom is the Spirit of God?” ^{▼▼Or of the gods} 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. 40 ^cYou shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. ^{▼▼Hebrew and according to your command all my people shall kiss the ground} Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.” 41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, ^eI have set you over all the land of Egypt.” 42 Then Pharaoh ^ftook his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and ^gclothed him in garments of fine linen ^hand put a gold chain about his neck. 43 And he made him ride in his second chariot. ⁱAnd they called out before him, “Bow the knee!” ^{▼▼Abrek, probably an Egyptian word, similar in sound to the Hebrew word meaning to kneel} Thus he set him ^kover all the land of Egypt. 44 Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and ^lwithout your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

46 Joseph was thirty years old when he ^mentered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. 47 During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, 48 and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. 49 And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, ⁿlike the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

50 Before the year of famine came, ^otwo sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.” ^{▼▼ Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for making to forget} 52 The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has ^qmade me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” ^{▼▼ Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful}

53 The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end, 54 and ^sthe seven years of famine began to come, ^tas Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

56 So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses ^{▼▼Hebrew all that was in them} and ^vsold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57 Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe ^wover all the earth.