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.