43. He gave him the second royal chariot to ride in, and his guard of honour went ahead of him and cried out, “Make way! Make way!” And so Joseph was appointed governor over all Egypt.
44. The king said to him, “I am the king — and no one in all Egypt shall so much as lift a hand or a foot without your permission.”
45-46. He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah, and he gave him a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis.Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve the king of Egypt. He left the king's court and travelled all over the land.
47. During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundant crops,
48. all of which Joseph collected and stored in the cities. In each city he stored the food from the fields around it.