Pharaoh needed to find a man both “discreet and wise ” to oversee the gathering of the land’s surplus grain into storehouses during the seven years of plenty and then to distribute that surplus to the needy during the ensuing famine.
Lai gan Jāzepa pieredze un spējas viņu padarīja pilnībā piemērotu šim uzdevumam, viņš pats sevi neieteica svarīgajam darbam.