Genesis 41:44

41:44 Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission ¹  no one ²  will move his hand or his foot ³  in all the land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41:55

41:55 When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, ⁴  “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

¹ tn Heb “apart from you.”

² tn Heb “no man,” but here “man” is generic, referring to people in general.

³ tn The idiom “lift up hand or foot” means “take any action” here.

⁴ tn Heb “to all Egypt.” The name of the country is used by metonymy for the inhabitants.