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GENESIS · Chapter 47
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.
47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And
they said unto Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and also
our fathers.
47:4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, In order to sojourn in the land
are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the
famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your
servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
47:5 And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph, saying, Your father and your brethren
are come unto you:
47:6 The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make
your father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell:
and if you know any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over
my cattle.
47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh:
and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old are you?
47:9 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.
47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
47:11 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.
47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
father's household, with bread, according to their families.
47:13 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.
47:14 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.
47:15 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 your presence? for the money fails.
47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your
cattle, if money fail.
47:17 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.
47:18 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 has our herds of cattle; there is not ought left
in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
47:19 Wherefore shall we die before your 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.
47:20 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.
47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end
of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
47:22 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.
47:23 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 all of you
shall sow the land.
47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that all of you 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.
47:25 And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find grace in
the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
47:26 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.
47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;
and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the
whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
47:29 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 your sight,
put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with
me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:
47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of
Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as you
have said.
47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he swore unto him. And Israel
bowed himself upon the bed's head.
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