A Reserve for the Famine

33Now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man, and appoint him over the land of Egypt.

34Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land and take a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

35Let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and let them store up grain under Pharaoh’s authority as food in the cities, and let them keep it.

36That food shall be a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine that will be in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not be cut off by the famine.