46 Joseph was 30 years old when he began to serve Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, when he left Pharaoh’s court and traveled through the entire land of Egypt.
47 During the seven years of abundance, the land produced plentifully.
48 He collected all of the food during the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt, and stored the food in cities. In each city, he stored the food from the fields surrounding it.
49 Joseph amassed grain like the sand of the sea. There was so much that he stopped trying to measure it because it was beyond measuring.
50 Before the years of famine arrived, Asenath the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, gave birth to two sons for Joseph.
51 Joseph named the oldest son Manasseh, "because," he said, "God has helped me forget all of my troubles and everyone in my father’s household."
52 He named the second Ephraim, "because," he said, "God has given me children in the land where I’ve been treated harshly."