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.
2 And
he took some of his brethren, even 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 also
our fathers.
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.
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 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.
7 And
Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob
blessed Pharaoh.
8 And
Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
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.
10 And
Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before 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 all 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 corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the
money into Pharaoh's house.
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.
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
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
27 And
Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had
possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was
an hundred forty and seven years.
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:
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.
31 And
he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon
the bed's head.
