And he gathered all the food of the seven years, in which was the plenty in the land of Egypt; and he laid up the food in the cities; the food of the fields of a city round about it he laid up in it.

And Joseph gathered very much grain as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.

And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians.

For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing.

For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.

And Moses said, O Lord, I pray, appoint another able person whom You shall send.