³⁵ And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

⁴⁸ And 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, laid he up in the same.

⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

⁵⁶ And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

⁶ For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

⁷ And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

¹³ And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.