36. This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”
37. This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.
38. So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”
39. So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!
40. You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. Only I, the king, will be greater than you.
41. “See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt.”