²⁹ The next seven years will be a period of great prosperity throughout the land of Egypt.

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.

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.

²⁶ The seven healthy cows and the seven healthy heads of grain both represent seven years of prosperity.