41. Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Know this: I’ve given you authority over the entire land of Egypt."
42. Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, he dressed him in linen clothes, and he put a gold necklace around his neck.
43. He put Joseph on the chariot of his second-in-command, and everyone in front of him cried out, "Attention!" So Pharaoh installed him over the entire land of Egypt.
44. Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh; no one will do anything or go anywhere in all the land of Egypt without your permission."
45. Pharaoh renamed Joseph, Zaphenath-paneah, and married him to Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of Heliopolis.Then Joseph assumed control of the land of Egypt.
46. Joseph was 30 years old when he began to serve Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, when he left Pharaoh’s court and traveled through the entire land of Egypt.
47. During the seven years of abundance, the land produced plentifully.
48. He collected all of the food during the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt, and stored the food in cities. In each city, he stored the food from the fields surrounding it.
49. Joseph amassed grain like the sand of the sea. There was so much that he stopped trying to measure it because it was beyond measuring.