They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.

Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, “Kneel down!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all.

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him – the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,

he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.”

You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.