35. Order them to collect all the food during the good years that are coming, and give them authority to store up corn in the cities and guard it.
36. The food will be a reserve supply for the country during the seven years of famine which are going to come on Egypt. In this way the people will not starve.”
37. The king and his officials approved this plan,
38. and he said to them, “We will never find a better man than Joseph, a man who has God's Spirit in him.”