| 1 Then Joseph went in 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.
2 And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto
Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation?
And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our
fathers. 4 And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come;
for there is no pasture for thy servants' 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. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father
and thy brethren are come unto thee: 6 the land of Egypt is before thee;
in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the
land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them,
then make them rulers over my cattle. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his
father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And
Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are
a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of
my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of
my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh,
and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 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. 12 And
Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's
household, with bread, according to their families.
13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore,
so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the
famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land
of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and
Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when the money was
all spent 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 our money faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your
cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 17 And they
brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for
the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he
fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year. 18 And
when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto
him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the
herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord,
but our bodies, and our lands: 19 wherefore should 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, and that the land be not desolate.
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians
sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land
became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to the cities
from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22 Only
the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from
Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they
sold not their land. 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. 24 And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings,
that ye shall give a fifth 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. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our
lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants. 26 And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt
unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the
priests alone became not Pharaoh's.
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they
gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of
Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years. 29 And
the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and
said unto him, If now I have found favor 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; 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me
out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as
thou hast said. 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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