hunger of these latter years shall consume all the plenty of the first years.  The latter dream pertaineth to the same, because God would that it should be fulfilled.  Now therefore let the king provide for a man that is wise and witty, that may command and ordain provosts and officers in all places of the realm, that they gather into garners and barns the fifth part of all the corn and fruits that shall grow these first seven plenteous years that be to come, and that all this wheat may be kept in barns and garners in towns and villages, that it may be made ready against the coming of the seven scarce years that shall oppress by hunger all Egypt, to the end that the people be not enfamined.  This counsel pleased much to Pharaoh and to all his ministers.  Then Pharaoh said to his servants:  Where should we find such a man as this is, which is fulfilled with the spirit of God?  And then he said to Joseph:  Forasmuch as God hath showed to thee all that thou hast spoken, trowest thou that we might find any wiser than thou or like to thee?  Thou shalt be upperest of my house, and to the commandment of thy mouth all people shall obey.  I only shall go tofore thee and sit but one seat above thee.  Yet said Pharaoh to Joseph:  Lo!  I have ordained thee above and master upon all the land of Egypt.  He took a ring from his hand and gave it into his hand, and clad him with a double stole furred with bise; and a golden collar he put about his neck, and made him to ascend upon his chair; the second trumpet crying that all men should kneel tofore him, and that they should know him upperest provost of all the land of Egypt.  Then said the king of Egypt to Joseph:  I am Pharaoh, without thy commandment shall no man move hand nor foot in all the land of Egypt.  He changed his name and called him in the tongue of Egypt:  The saviour of the world.  He gave to him a wife named Asenath, daughter of Poti-phera, priest of Eliopoleos.

Joseph went forth then into the land of Egypt.  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood in the favor and grace of Pharaoh.  And he went round about all the region of Egypt.  The plenteousness and fertility of the seven years came, and sheaves and shocks of corn were brought in to the barns; all the abundance of fruits was laid in every town.  There was so great plenty of wheat that it might be compared to the gravel of the sea, and the plenty thereof exceedeth measure.  Joseph had two sons by his wife ere the famine and hunger came, which Asenath the priest’s daughter brought forth, of whom he called the name of the first Manasseh, saying:  God hath made me to forget all my labors, and the house of my father hath forgotten me.  He called the name of the second son Ephraim, saying:  God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.