Day 017 - Genesis 41-42

Joseph has to wait two years for justice to prevail when the king has an uninterpretable dream and the steward finally deigns to remember him. Again Joseph gives God his rightful place by acknowledging before the king who is the source of his ability to interpret dreams. He doesn't do badly at all out of the whole thing as he goes from lowly prisoner to the second most powerful man in Egypt.

Then the story switches tone as we go from worldwide famine to focus in on the continuing story of Joseph's family who come to Egypt to buy corn. There follows a few chapters in which Joseph deliberately withholds his identity from his brothers and it's hard to see why other than to put them through some kind of emotional assault course. He does also try to bless them by giving them the corn for free, but when they discover their money returned to them they panic even more.