Genesis 47

¹So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh , My father and my brothers , with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan . They are now in the land of Goshen .

²And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh .

³Pharaoh said to his brothers , What is your occupation ? And they said to Pharaoh , Your servants are shepherds , as our fathers were .

⁴They said to Pharaoh , We have come to sojourn in the land , for there is no pasture for your servants ’ flocks , for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan . And now , please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen .

⁵Then Pharaoh said to Joseph , Your father and your brothers have come to you.

⁶The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land . Let them settle in the land of Goshen , and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock .

⁷Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh , and Jacob blessed Pharaoh .

⁸And Pharaoh said to Jacob , How many are the days of the years of your life ?

⁹And Jacob said to Pharaoh , The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years . Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life , and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning .

¹⁰And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh .

¹¹Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers 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 .

¹²And Joseph provided his father , his brothers , and all his father’s household with food , according to the number of their dependents .

¹³Now there was no food in all the land , for the famine was very severe , so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine .

¹⁴And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan , in exchange for the grain that they bought . And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house .

¹⁵And when the money was all spent 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 eyes ? For our money is gone .

¹⁶And Joseph answered , Give your livestock , and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock , if your money is gone .

¹⁷So they brought their livestock to Joseph , and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses , the flocks , the herds , and the donkeys . He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year .

¹⁸And when that year was ended , they came to him the following year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent . The herds of livestock are my lord’s . There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land .

¹⁹Why should we die before your eyes , both we and our land ? Buy us and our land for food , and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh . And give us seed that we may live and not die , and that the land may not be desolate .

²⁰So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh , for all the Egyptians sold their fields , because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s .

²¹As for the people , he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other .

²²Only the land of the priests he did not buy , for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land .

²³Then Joseph said to the people , Behold , I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh . Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land .

²⁴And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh , and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households , and as food for your little ones .

²⁵And they said , You have saved our lives ; may it please my lord , we will be servants to Pharaoh .

²⁶So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt , and it stands to this day , that Pharaoh should have the fifth ; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s .

²⁷Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly .

²⁸And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years . So the days of Jacob , the years of his life , were 147 years .

²⁹And when 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 kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt ,

³⁰but let me lie with my fathers . Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place . He answered , I will do as you have said .

³¹And he said , Swear to me; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed .