⁵⁵ When the Egyptian people became hungry, they cried out to Pharaoh for food. When they did that, Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, ‘Go to Joseph. Do whatever he tells you to do.’

⁵⁶ The famine became very bad everywhere. Joseph opened all the places where he had stored the food. He sold grain to the Egyptians because there was a bad famine in all of Egypt. ⁵⁷ People from all the other countries came to Egypt to buy food from Joseph. They came because the famine was very bad all over the world.