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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