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42 Removing his signet ring from his hand, Pharaoh put it on Joseph’s hand; he arrayed him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain around his neck. 43 He had him ride in the chariot of his second-in-command; and they cried out in front of him, ‘Bow the knee!’[a] Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt. 44 Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.’

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 41:43 Abrek, apparently an Egyptian word similar in sound to the Hebrew word meaning to kneel

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