Genesis 41:35

And Pharaoh said unto his servants,.... That were about him, and with whom he was consulting about a proper person to be over this affair of gathering in the fruits of the earth in the time of plenty,…

- Joseph Was Exalted 1. יאר ye'or, “river, canal,” mostly applied to the Nile. Some suppose the word to be Coptic. 2. אחוּ 'āchû, “sedge, reed-grass, marsh-grass.” This word is probably Coptic. 8.…

Under the hand of Pharaoh - To be completely at the disposal of the king.

Here is, I. The good advice that Joseph gave to Pharaoh, which was, 1. That in the years of plenty he should lay up for the years of famine, buy up corn when it was cheap, that he might both enrich…

let them gather all the food This is rhetorical, and need not be pressed as contradicting the exaction of the one-fifth in Gen 41:41. But see Gen 41:41.

lay up corn i.e. store up the grain in the…