43. Then he had Joseph ride in the chariot reserved for his second-in-command. And wherever Joseph went, the command was shouted, “Kneel down!” So Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of all Egypt.
44. And Pharaoh said to him, “I am Pharaoh, but no one will lift a hand or foot in the entire land of Egypt without your approval.”
45. Then Pharaoh gave Joseph a new Egyptian name, Zaphenath-paneah. He also gave him a wife, whose name was Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On. So Joseph took charge of the entire land of Egypt.
46. He was thirty years old when he began serving in the court of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And when Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence, he inspected the entire land of Egypt.
47. As predicted, for seven years the land produced bumper crops.
48. During those years, Joseph gathered all the crops grown in Egypt and stored the grain from the surrounding fields in the cities.
49. He piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped keeping records because there was too much to measure.
50. During this time, before the first of the famine years, two sons were born to Joseph and his wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.
51. Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.”