Genesis 41:34-36

Expanded Bible

³⁴ And let ·the king [^LPharaoh] also appoint ·officers [overseers] over the land, who should take one-fifth of all the food that is grown during the seven ·good years [years of plenty]. ³⁵ They should gather all the food that is produced during the good years that are coming, and under the king’s ·authority [control; ^Lhand] they should store the grain in the cities and guard it. ³⁶ That food ·should be saved to use [shall serve as a reserve] during the seven years of ·hunger [famine] that will come on the land of Egypt. Then the people in Egypt will not ·die [^Lbe cut off] during the seven years of ·hunger [famine].”