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Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?"
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has showed you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
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You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
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Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph`s hand, and arrayed him in robes 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. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
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Pharaoh called Joseph`s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
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Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
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In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
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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, he laid up in the same.
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Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
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To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
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Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father`s house."
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The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
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The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
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The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
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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 says to you, do."
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The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
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All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.