The warden did not concern himself<n id="1" /> with anything that was in Joseph&#8217;s<n id="2" /> care because the <sc>Lordsc> was with him and whatever he was doing the <sc>Lordsc> was making successful.p>

In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head.&#8221;p>

But seven years of famine will occur<n id="1" /> after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate<n id="2" /> the land.

They should gather all the excess food<n id="1" /> during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh&#8217;s authority<n id="2" /> they should store up grain so the cities will have food,<n id="3" /> and they should preserve it.<n id="4" />

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning<n id="1" /> as you are!

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands.<n id="1" /> Only I, the king, will be greater than you.<n id="2" />p>

Pharaoh<n id="1" /> had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command,<n id="2" /> and they cried out before him, &#8220;Kneel down!&#8221;<n id="3" /> So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, &#8220;I am Pharaoh, but without your permission<n id="1" /> no one<n id="2" /> will move his hand or his foot<n id="3" /> in all the land of Egypt.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was 30 years old<n id="1" /> when he began serving<n id="2" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by<n id="3" /> Pharaoh and was in charge of<n id="4" /> all the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country.<n id="1" /> Joseph&#8217;s brothers came and bowed down<n id="2" /> before him with<n id="3" /> their faces to the ground.

<p class="bodytext">They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

Their father Jacob said to them, &#8220;You are making me childless! Joseph is gone.<n id="1" /> Simeon is gone.<n id="2" /> And now you want to take<n id="3" /> Benjamin! Everything is against me.&#8221;p>

I myself pledge security<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />

He gave them portions of the food set before him,<n id="1" /> but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.<n id="2" />p>

Indeed,<n id="1" /> your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, &#8216;If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.&#8217;p>

You will live<n id="1" /> in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me &#8211; you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

I will provide you with food<n id="1" /> there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor &#8211; you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.&#8221;&#8217;

He gave sets of clothes to each one of them,<n id="1" /> but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes.<n id="2" />

They told him, &#8220;Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!&#8221; Jacob was stunned,<n id="1" /> for he did not believe them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had.<n id="1" /> When he came to Beer Sheba<n id="2" /> he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.