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The Book of Genesis
Genesis 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
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