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Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
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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;
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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.
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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.
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And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath
the daughter of Poti- pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over
all
the land of Egypt.
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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.
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And in the
seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
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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.
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And Joseph gathered corn as the
sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for
it was
without number.
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And unto Joseph
were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti- pherah
priest of On bare unto him.
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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.
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And the name of the second called
he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
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And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
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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.
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And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what
he saith to you, do.
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And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the
storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
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And
all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy
corn;
because that the famine was so sore in all
lands.
CHAPTER 42
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one
upon another?
2
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither,
and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4
But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother,
Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
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And the sons
of Israel came to buy
corn
among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And
Joseph
was
the governor over the land,
and
he
it was
that sold to all the people of the land: and
Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him
with
their faces to the earth.
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And
Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly
unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to
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