³⁵ And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

⁴⁸ And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

⁴⁹ So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.

⁵⁶ And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

⁶ For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

⁷ God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

¹³ And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.