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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.
02 And he took some of his brethren, even
five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
03 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.
04 They said morever 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.
05 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
06 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.
07 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father,
and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed
Pharaoh.
08 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art
thou?
09 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.
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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.
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