Pharaoh gives his ring to Joseph by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Genesis 41:41-57

Genesis 41 41

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41 42

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,

Genesis 41 43

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.

Genesis 41 44

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.”

Genesis 41 45

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.

Genesis 41 46

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.

Genesis 41 47

In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.

Genesis 41 48

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 around every city, he laid up in the same.

Genesis 41 49

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

Genesis 41 50

To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

Genesis 41 51

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.”

Genesis 41 52

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 41 53

The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

Genesis 41 54

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.

Genesis 41 55

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.”

Genesis 41 56

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.

Genesis 41 57

All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.