35 Let them gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. Under Pharaoh’s authority, store the grain in the cities, so they may preserve it as food.
36 The food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine that will take place in the land of Egypt. Then the country will not be wiped out by the famine.”
37 The proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.
38 Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit in him? ”
39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as intelligent and wise as you are.
40 You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
41 Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “See, I am placing you over all the land of Egypt.”