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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
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