⁴⁸ Joseph got all the extra food that grew in the seven good years. He stored it in Egypt's cities, near the fields where it had grown. ⁴⁹ In this way, Joseph stored a lot of food. The food grains were as many as the sand by the sea! Joseph stopped counting how much food he had stored because there was too much food to measure.

⁵⁰ Before the years of famine arrived, Joseph became the father of two sons. Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis, was their mother.