39. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
40. You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
41. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
42. Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
43. He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
44. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”
45. Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
46. Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47. In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.