Genesis 41:33-36

"Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine."

Speiser commented on the foolish criticism that "the overseers (Genesis 41:34) is contradictory to the proposal of a single manager in Genesis 41:33! The task clearly involved a large staff, so all the clause indicates is that Joseph would choose his own assistants."[12] Such negative criticisms are on a parity with Peake's complaint that, "He had been twenty years in Egypt without troubling to let his father know that he was alive!"[13] Someone should enlighten men like Peake with reference to what the postal service was like in Egypt in those days for a slave in prison!