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“Before the first clash with the Egyptians, the head scoundrel,
the modest Joseph, had things pretty well prepared: The seven lean
cows, all the granaries filled, the people raging with hunger, the
reigning Pharaoh a perfect flunky of the Jews, and Joseph, with a
corner on the grain supply ‘ruler over all the land’!13 All the
lamentations of the Egyptians were in vain; the Jew held the
warehouse closed with an iron fist until they, in return for a bit of
bread, were obliged to give away first their money, then their
cattle and their land, and finally their freedom. And suddenly the
capital was swarming with Jews; old Jacob was there, and ‘his
sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’
daughters, and all his seed’ –

the entire hodgepodge.14 And Joseph ‘wept a good while’ for joy.
Afterward, he said to his brothers: ‘ye shall eat the fat of the land,’
and ‘the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.’15
“But some time after this glorious Egyptian citizen of the
Jewish faith, one hundred and ten years old, had died, the old
Pharaoh also passed away and was succeeded by another Pharaoh,
who ‘knew not Joseph,’ and, seeing the multitude of Jews, who
meanwhile had grown very powerful, he became quite frightened.
He feared lest: ‘when there falleth out any war, they join also unto
our enemies’;16 thus he was smarter than Wilhelm II,17 who hoped
for their support.