GENESIS

original: "lum super manum Josephi..." This is the conclusion of the previous page describing Pharaoh placing his signet ring on Joseph's hand. ...on Joseph's hand, and he clothed him in garments of fine linen original: "byssi", and placed a gold chain around his neck.

43. And he had him ride in his second chariot, and they cried out before him, "Abrech!" A title of honor, likely meaning "Bow the knee" or "Father of the King." as he set him over all the land of Egypt.

44. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh; without your consent, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

45. And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenat Paeneach interpreted as "Revealer of Secrets" or "Sustainer of Life", and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On also known as Heliopolis, to be his wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

46. Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, King of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and traveled throughout the entire land of Egypt.

47. And during the seven years of plenty, the earth produced abundant harvests.

48. And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and stored the food in the cities; the food from the fields surrounding each city, he stored within that city.

49. And Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, in such great quantity that he stopped counting it, for it was beyond measure.

50. And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

51. Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh original: "Menascheh", saying, "For God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

52. And the name of the second he called Ephraim, saying, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

53. And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt came to an end.

54. And the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt, there was bread.

55. When all the land of Egypt suffered from the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, do it."

56. The famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses original: "omnia in quibus," literally "all in which [grain was]" and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine grew severe in the land of Egypt.

57. And people from all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe in every land.