Order them to collect all the food during the good years that are coming, and give them authority to store up grain in the cities and guard it.
You must also appoint other officials and take a fifth of the crops during the seven years of plenty.
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.”
The famine grew worse and spread over the whole country, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians.
But Moses answered, “No, Lord, please send someone else.”