When Joseph became vizier of Egypt, second only to Pharaoh and wearing his ring of authority,

he also got a new name that doesn't exactly roll off our English-speaking tongues.

It is Zafnath Paniah.

And what it lacks in clarity to us, it more than makes up in its meaning, which is

Savior of the world.

Yes, his starving family will come from Canaan, hoping to buy the corn that Joseph has

stored in Egypt, but his name signifies even more than that.

We'll tell you today.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast,

where today we'll study Genesis chapters 42 through 50 about Joseph saving his family in Egypt.

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will come to your inbox each day for free. The seven years of plenty that Joseph had described

from Farrell's dream were now at an end, and for two years the world had been in the desperate

plight of famine. Joseph opened the granaries of Egypt, and surrounding

nations came for food, including some familiar faces from Canaan, ten of Joseph's brothers.

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