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GE-47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father
and my
brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they
have,
are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they [are] in
the
land of Goshen.
GE-47:2 And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and
presented them unto Pharaoh.
GE-47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What [is] your
occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are]
shepherds,
both we, [and] also our fathers.
GE-47:4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the
land
are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks;
for
the famine [is] sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we
pray
thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
GE-47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and
thy
brethren are come unto thee:
GE-47:6 The land of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of the
land
make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let
them
dwell: and if thou knowest [any] men of activity among them,
then make
them rulers over my cattle.
GE-47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him
before
Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
GE-47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old [art] thou?
GE-47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have
the
days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto
the days
of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage.
GE-47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before
Pharaoh.
GE-47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and
gave them
a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in
the
land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
GE-47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and
all
his father's household, with bread, according to [their]
families.
GE-47:13 And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the
famine
[was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of
Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
GE-47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in
the
land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they
bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
GE-47:15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the
land
of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us
bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money
faileth.
GE-47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you
for
your cattle, if money fail.
GE-47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph
gave
them bread [in exchange] for horses, and for the flocks, and for
the
cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with
bread for
all their cattle for that year.
GE-47:18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second
year, and said unto him, We will not hide [it] from my lord, how
that
our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there
is
not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our
lands:
GE-47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and
our
land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be
servants unto Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we may live, and
not
die, that the land be not desolate.
GE-47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh;
for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed
over
them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
GE-47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
[one]
end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.
GE-47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the
priests
had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did eat their
portion
which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
GE-47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have
bought you
this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you,
and ye
shall sow the land.
GE-47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye
shall
give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your
own,
for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your
households, and for food for your little ones.
GE-47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find
grace
in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
GE-47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto
this
day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the
land of
the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's.
GE-47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country
of
Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and
multiplied
exceedingly.
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