³⁵ They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food.^(A)

¹³ But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”^(A)

⁶ For two years now there has been famine^(A) in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. ⁷ But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant^(B) on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.^[a](C)

⁵⁶ When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians,^(A) for the famine^(B) was severe throughout Egypt.^(C)

⁴⁸ Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities.^(A) In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. ⁴⁹ Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea;^(B) it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.