[The Pentateuch]

Now therefore let Pharaoh provide for a man of understanding and wisdom / and set him over the land of Egypt. And let ⟨image 70⟩Pharaoh make officers over the land / and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the vij. plenteous years and let them gather all the food of these good years that come / and lay up corn under the power of Pharaoh: that there may be food in the cities / and there let them kept it: that there may be food in store in the land / against the .vij. years of hunger which shall come in the land of Egypt / and that the land perish not through hunger.

Now therfore let Pharao provyde for a man of vnderstondynge and wysdome / and sett him over the lande of Egipte. And let ⟨image 70⟩Pharao make officers ouer the lande / and take vp the fyfte parte of the land of Egipte in the vij. plenteous yeres and let them gather all the foode of these good yeres that come / ād lay vp corne vnder the power of Pharo: that there may be foode in the cities / and there let them kepte it: that there may be foode in stoore in the lande / agaynst the .vij. yeres of hunger which shall come in the lande of Egipte / and that the lande perishe not thorow hunger.

And the saying pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. Than said Pharaoh unto his servants: where shall we find sch a man as this is / that hath the spirit of God in him? wherefore Pharaoh said unto Joseph: for as much as God hath showed the all this / there is no man of understanding nor of wisdom like unto the Thou therefore shalt be over my house / and according to thy word shall all my people obey: only in the kings seat will I be above thee. And he said unto Joseph: behold / I have set the over all the land of Egypt. And he toke off his ring from his finger / and put it upon Josephs finger / and arrayed him in raiment of bisse / and put a golden chain about his neck and set him upon the best chariot that he had save one. And they cried before him Abrech / and that Pharaoh had made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.