Discovery BoxGenesis 41:46 
Context41:46 Now Joseph was 30 years old 1 when he began serving 2 Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by 3 Pharaoh and was in charge of 4 all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:55
Context41:55 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, 5 “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
Genesis 48:5
Context48:5 “Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. 6 Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.
1 tn Heb “a son of thirty years.”
2 tn Heb “when he stood before.”
3 tn Heb “went out from before.”
4 tn Heb “and he passed through all the land of Egypt”; this phrase is interpreted by JPS to mean that Joseph “emerged in charge of the whole land.”
5 tn Heb “to all Egypt.” The name of the country is used by metonymy for the inhabitants.
6 sn They will be mine. Jacob is here adopting his two grandsons Manasseh and Ephraim as his sons, and so they will have equal share with the other brothers. They will be in the place of Joseph and Levi (who will become a priestly tribe) in the settlement of the land. See I. Mendelsohn, “A Ugaritic Parallel to the Adoption of Ephraim and Manasseh,” IEJ (1959): 180-83.
