~Genesis 47:1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, Myfather and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all thatthey have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they arein the land of Goshen.
~Genesis 47:2 And from among his brethren he took five men, andpresented them unto Pharaoh.
~Genesis 47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is youroccupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds,both we, and our fathers.
~Genesis 47:4 And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land arewe come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for thefamine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, letthy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
~Genesis 47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father andthy brethren are come unto thee:
~Genesis 47:6 the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the landmake thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen letthem dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, thenmake them rulers over my cattle.
~Genesis 47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set himbefore Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
~Genesis 47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the daysof the years of thy life?
~Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years ofmy pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have beenthe days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto thedays of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of theirpilgrimage.
~Genesis 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from thepresence of Pharaoh.
~Genesis 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, andgave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, inthe land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
~Genesis 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, andall his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
~Genesis 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the faminewas very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaanfainted by reason of the famine.
~Genesis 47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was foundin the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain whichthey bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
~Genesis 47:15 And when the money was all spent in the land ofEgypt, 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.
~Genesis 47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give youfor your cattle, if money fail.
~Genesis 47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Josephgave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, andfor the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread inexchange for all their cattle for that year.
~Genesis 47:18 And when that year was ended, they came unto himthe 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 ourlands:
~Genesis 47:19 wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both weand our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land willbe servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and notdie, and that the land be not desolate.
~Genesis 47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh;for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine wassore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's.
~Genesis 47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to the citiesfrom one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
~Genesis 47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not: for thepriests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion whichPharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.
~Genesis 47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I havebought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed foryou, and ye shall sow the land.
~Genesis 47:24 And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that yeshall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, forseed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households,and for food for your little ones.
~Genesis 47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us findfavor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
~Genesis 47:26 And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land ofEgypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the landof the priests alone became not Pharaoh's.
~Genesis 47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land ofGoshen; and they gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, andmultiplied exceedingly.
~Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years:so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty andseven years.
~Genesis 47:29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and hecalled his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor inthy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindlyand truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt;
~Genesis 47:30 but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry meout of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I willdo as thou hast said.
~Genesis 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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