³⁶ This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt,^(A) so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.”

³⁷ The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials.^{(B) 38} So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God^[a]?”^(C)