041:045 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave
him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife.
Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
041:046 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,
and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
041:047 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.
041:048 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,
he laid up in the same.
041:049 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much,
until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
041:050 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On,
bore to him.
041:051 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,{"Manasseh"
sounds like the Hebrew for "forget."} "For," he said, "God has
made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."
041:052 The name of the second, he called Ephraim{"Ephraim"
sounds like the Hebrew for "twice fruitful."}: "For God has
made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
041:053 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt,
came to an end.
041:054 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said.
There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt
there was bread.
041:055 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh
for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph.
What he says to you, do."