Genesis 41:45

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and arranged for him to marry Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. This is how Joseph rose to power over the whole of Egypt.

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In The King James Version

And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

In Context

44Then Pharaoh told Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission nobody will lift a hand or a foot anywhere in the whole country.”

46Joseph was thirty when he started working for Pharaoh, king of Egypt. After he had left Pharaoh, Joseph traveled on an inspection tour throughout Egypt.

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Cross References

Genesis 14:18Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of the Most High God.

Exodus 2:16the Midianite priest's seven daughters came to fetch water to fill up the troughs so their father's flock could drink.

2 Samuel 20:26and Ira the Jairite was David's priest.

Ezekiel 30:17The young soldiers of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the people from those towns will be taken captive.

Luke 2:1It was the time when Caesar Augustus issued a decree that there should be a census of everyone in the Roman Empire.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:34-46

Joseph's Exaltation. ( b. c. 1715.) 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which… Read the whole commentary →

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