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.