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YUSUFALI : (Joseph) said: "Set me over the store-houses of the land: I will indeed guard them, as one that knows (their importance)."

PICKTHAL : He said: Set me over the storehouses of the land. Lo! I am a skilled custodian.

SHAKIR : He said: Place me (in authority) over the treasures of the land, surely I am a good keeper, knowing well.

M& HILALI : [Yusuf (Joseph)] said: "Set me over the storehouses of the land; I will indeed guard them with full knowledge" (as a minister of finance in Egypt, in place of Al-'Aziz who was dead at that time).