Genesis 41:44
41:44 Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission 1 no one 2 will move his hand or his foot 3 in all the land of Egypt.”
Genesis 41:55
41:55 When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, 4 “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
1 tn Heb “apart from you.”
2 tn Heb “no man,” but here “man” is generic, referring to people in general.
3 tn The idiom “lift up hand or foot” means “take any action” here.
4 tn Heb “to all Egypt.” The name of the country is used by metonymy for the inhabitants.