47THEN JOSEPH came and told Pharaoh, My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan, and they are in the land of Goshen.H3130H935H5046H6547H559H1H251H6629H1241H935H776H3667H776H1657 2And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.H3947H7097H251H2568H582H3322H6440H6547 3And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers before us.H6547H559H251H4639H559H6547H5650H7462H6629H1 4Moreover, they said to Pharaoh, We have come to sojourn in the land, for your servants have no pasture for our flocks, for the famine is very severe in Canaan. So now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.H559H6547H1481H776H935H5650H4829H6629H7458H3515H776H3667H5650H3427H776H1657 5And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you.H6547H559H3130H559H1H251H935 6The land of Egypt is before you; make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any men of ability among them, put them in charge of my cattle.H776H4714H6440H4315H776H3427H1H251H3427H776H1657H3427H3045H3426H582H2428H7760H8269H4735 7Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.H3130H935H3290H1H5975H6440H6547H3290H1288H6547 8And Pharaoh asked Jacob, How old are you?H6547H559H3290H4100H2416H3117H8141 9Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and they have not attained to those of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage.H3290H559H6547H3117H8141H4033H3967H7970H8141H4592H7451H3117H8141H2416H5381H3117H8141H2416H1H3117H4033 10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.H3290H1288H6547H3318H6440H6547 11Joseph settled his father and brethren and gave them a possession in Egypt in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses (Goshen), as Pharaoh commanded.H3130H3427H1H251H5414H272H776H4714H4315H776H776H7486H6547H6680 12And Joseph supplied his father and his brethren and all his father's household with food, according to [the needs of] their families.H3130H3557H1H251H1H1004H3899H6310H2945 13[In the course of time] there was no food in all the land, for the famine was distressingly severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan hung in doubt and wavered by reason of the hunger (destitution, starvation) of the famine.H3899H776H7458H3966H3515H776H4714H776H3667H3856H6440H7458 14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan [in payment] for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.H3130H3950H3701H4672H776H4714H776H3667H7668H7666H3130H935H3701H6547H1004 15And when the money was exhausted in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes? For we have no money left.H3701H8552H776H4714H776H3667H4714H935H3130H559H3051H3899H4191H3701H656 16Joseph said, Give up your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for [them] if your money is gone.H3130H559H3051H4735H5414H4735H3701H656 17So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and [he] gave them food in exchange for the horses, flocks, cattle of the herds, and the donkeys; and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.H935H4735H3130H3130H5414H3899H5483H6629H4735H1241H2543H5095H3899H4735H8141 18When that year was ended, they came to [Joseph] the second year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord [the fact] that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of livestock; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.H8141H8552H935H8145H8141H559H3582H113H3701H8552H113H413H4735H929H7604H6440H113H1472H127 19Why should we perish before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.H4191H5869H127H7069H127H3899H127H5650H6547H5414H2233H2421H4191H127H3456 20And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field because of the overwhelming severity of the famine upon them. The land became Pharaoh's,H3130H7069H127H4714H6547H4714H4376H376H7704H7458H2388H776H6547 21And as for the people, he removed them to cities {and} practically made slaves of them [at their own request], from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other.H5971H5674H5892H7097H1366H4714H7097 22Only the priests' land he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed pension from Pharaoh and lived on the amount Pharaoh gave them. So they did not sell their land.H127H3548H7069H3548H2706H6547H398H2706H6547H5414H4376H127 23Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.H3130H559H5971H7069H853H3117H127H6547H1887H2233H2232H127 24At [harvest time when you reap] the increase, you shall give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own to use for seed for the field and as food for you and those of your households and for your little ones.H8393H5414H2549H6547H702H3027H2233H7704H400H1004H398H2945 25And they said, You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord; and we will be Pharaoh's servants.H559H2421H4672H2580H5869H113H6547H5650 26And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt--to this day--that Pharaoh should have the fifth part [of the crops]; it was the priests' land only which did not become Pharaoh's.H3130H7760H2706H127H4714H3117H6547H2569H7535H127H3548H6547 27And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they gained possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.H3478H3427H776H4714H776H1657H270H6509H7235H3966 28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so Jacob reached the age of 147 years.H3290H2421H776H4714H6240H7651H8141H2416H3117H3290H3967H705H8141H7651H8141 29When the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and [promise to] deal loyally and faithfully with me. Do not bury me, I beg of you, in Egypt,H3117H7126H3478H4191H7121H1121H3130H559H4672H2580H5869H7760H3027H3409H6213H2617H571H6912H4714 30But let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place. And [Joseph] said, I will do as you have directed.H7901H1H5375H4714H6912H6900H559H6213H1697 31Then Jacob said, Swear to me [that you will do it]. And he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself upon the head of the bed.H559H7650H7650H3478H7812H4296H7218
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