The Book of Genesis-Verse by Verse

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Genesis 41:44
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

 

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Genesis 41:45
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

 

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Genesis 41:46 (KJV) And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

 

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Genesis 41:47 (KJV) And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

 

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Genesis 41:48 (KJV) And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

 

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Genesis 41:49 (KJV) And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

 

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Genesis 41:50 (KJV) And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

 

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Genesis 41:51
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

 

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Genesis 41:52 (KJV) And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

 

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Genesis 41:53 (KJV) And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.

 

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Genesis 41:54 (KJV) And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

 

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Genesis 41:55 (KJV) And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

 

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Genesis 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

 

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Genesis 41:57
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

 

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Genesis 42:1
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

 

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Genesis 42:2
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

 

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Genesis 42:3
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

 

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Genesis 42:4
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

 

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Genesis 42:5
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

 

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Genesis 42:7
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.