Genesis 41:39

Pharaoh said to Joseph [May he add], “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:

In Context

38Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the breath mind Spirit of God?” (3)

40You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

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Cross References

Genesis 41:25Joseph [May he add] said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:33“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery].

Proverbs 12:8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, 2 but he who has a linnened mind shall be despised. 1

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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