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.

GE-47:28  And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years:

so the

whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

GE-47:29  And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he

called

his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in

thy

sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal

kindly and

truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

GE-47:30  But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry

me out

of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will

do as

thou hast said.

GE-47:31  And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And

Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.



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