Genesis Chapter 47

Genesis Chapter 47
1 Then came Joseph and told Pharaoh,
and said, My father, and my brethren,
and their sheep, and their cattle, and all
that they have, are come out of the land
of Canaan, and behold, they are in the
land of Goshen.
2 And Joseph took part of his brethren,
even five men, and presented them unto
Pharaoh.
3 Then Pharaoh said unto his brethren,
What is your trade? And they answered
Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds,
both we and our fathers. 4 They said
moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn
in the land are we come: for thy servants
have no pasture for their sheep, so sore
is the famine in the land of Canaan. Now
therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants
dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 Then spake Pharaoh to Joseph, saying,
Thy father and thy brethren are come
unto thee.
6 The land of Egypt is before thee: in the
best place of the land make thy father
and thy brethren dwell: let them dwell in
the land of Goshen: and if thou knowest
that there be men of activity among them,
make them rulers over my cattle.
7 Joseph also brought Jacob his father,
and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob
saluted Pharaoh.
8 Then Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How
old art thou?
9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The
whole time of my pilgrimage is an
hundred and thirty years: few and evil
have the days of my life been, and I have
not attained unto the years of the life of
my fathers, in the days of their
pilgrimages.
10 And Jacob took leave of Pharaoh,
and departed from the presence of
Pharaoh.
11 And Joseph placed his father, and his
brethren, and gave them possession in
the land of Egypt, in the best of the land,
even 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, even to the young
children.
13 Now there was no bread in all the
land: for the famine was exceeding sore:
so that the land of Egypt, and the land of
Canaan were famished by the reason of
the famine.
14 And Joseph gathered 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 laid up the
money in Pharaoh’s house.
15 So when money failed in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, then all
the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and
said, Give us bread: for why should we
die before thee? For our money is spent.
16 Then said Joseph, Bring your cattle,
and I will give you for your cattle, if
your money be spent.
17 So they brought their cattle unto
Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for
the horses, and for the flocks of sheep,
and for the herds of cattle, and for the
asses: so he fed them with bread for all
their cattle that year. 18 But when the
year was ended, they came unto him the
next year, and said unto him, We will not
hide from my lord, that since our money
is spent, and my lord hath the herds of
the cattle, there is nothing left in the sight
of my lord, but our bodies and our
ground.
19 Why shall we perish in thy sight, both
we, and our land? Buy us and our land
for bread, and we and our land will be
bond to Pharaoh: therefore give us seed,
that we may live and not die, and that the
land go not to waste. 20 So Joseph
bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh:
for the Egyptians sold every man his
ground because the famine was sore
upon them: so the land became
Pharaoh’s.
21 And he removed the people unto the
cities, from one side of Egypt even to the
other.
22 Only the land of the priests bought he
not: for the priests had an ordinary of
Pharaoh, and they did eat their ordinary,
which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore
they sold not their ground.
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: sow therefore the ground. 24
And of the increase ye shall give the fifth
part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall
be yours for the seed of the field, and for
your meat, and for them of your
households, and for your children to eat.
25 Then they answered, Thou hast saved
our lives: let us find grace in the sight of
my Lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s
servants.
26 Then 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 was not
Pharaoh’s.
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt,
in the country of Goshen: and they had
their possessions therein, and grew and
multiplied exceedingly. 28 Moreover,
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt
seventeen years, so that the whole age of
Jacob was an hundred forty and seven
year. 29 Now when the time drew near
that Israel must die, he called his son
Joseph, and said unto him, If I have now
found grace in thy sight, put thine hand
now under my thigh, and deal mercifully
and truly with me: bury me not, I pray
thee, in Egypt.
30 But when I shall sleep with my
fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt,
and bury me in their burial. And he
answered, I will do as thou hast said. 31
Then he said, Swear unto me. And he
swear unto him. And Israel worshiped
towards the bed’s head.