⁴⁸ Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities.^(A) In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

⁴⁹ Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea;^(A) it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

⁵³ The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,

⁵⁴ and the seven years of famine^(A) began,^(B) just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.