32. God has given you two dreams to let you know that he has definitely decided to do this and that he will do it soon.
33. Your Majesty, you should find someone who is wise and will know what to do, so that you can put him in charge of all Egypt.
34. Then appoint some other officials to collect one-fifth of every crop harvested in Egypt during the seven years when there is plenty.
35. Give them the power to collect the grain during those good years and to store it in your cities.
36. It can be stored until it is needed during the seven years when there won't be enough grain in Egypt. This will keep the country from being destroyed because of the lack of food.
37. The king and his officials liked this plan.
38. So the king said to them, “No one could possibly handle this better than Joseph, since the Spirit of God is with him.”
39. The king told Joseph, “God is the one who has shown you these things. No one else is as wise as you are or knows as much as you do.
40. I'm putting you in charge of my palace, and everybody will have to obey you. No one will be over you except me.
41. You are now governor of all Egypt!”
42. Then the king took off his royal ring and put it on Joseph's finger. He gave him fine clothes to wear and placed a gold chain around his neck.
43. He also let him ride in the chariot next to his own, and people shouted, “Make way for Joseph!” So Joseph was governor of Egypt.
44. The king told Joseph, “Although I'm king, no one in Egypt is to do anything without your permission.”
45. He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah. And he let him marry Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis. Joseph travelled all over Egypt.
46. Joseph was thirty when the king made him governor, and he went everywhere for the king.
47. For seven years there were big harvests of grain.
48. Joseph collected and stored up the extra grain in the cities of Egypt near the fields where it was harvested.