Genesis 47
GEN 47:1 And Joseph cometh, and declareth to Pharaoh, and saith, `My father, and
my brethren, and their flock, and their herd, and all they have, have come from
the land of Canaan, and lo, they `are' in the land of Goshen.'
GEN 47:2 And out of his brethren he hath taken five men, and setteth them before
Pharaoh;
GEN 47:3 and Pharaoh saith unto his brethren, `What `are' your works?' and they
say unto Pharaoh, `Thy servants `are' feeders of a flock, both we and our
fathers;'
GEN 47:4 and they say unto Pharaoh, `To sojourn in the land we have come, for
there is no pasture for the flock which thy servants have, for grievous `is' the
famine in the land of Canaan; and now, let thy servants, we pray thee, dwell in
the land of Goshen.'
GEN 47:5 And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph, saying, `Thy father and thy brethren
have come unto thee:
GEN 47:6 the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land cause thy
father and thy brethren to dwell -- they dwell in the land of Goshen, and if
thou hast known, and there are among them men of ability, then thou hast set
them heads over the cattle I have.'
GEN 47:7 And Joseph bringeth in Jacob his father, and causeth him to stand
before Pharaoh; and Jacob blesseth Pharaoh.
GEN 47:8 And Pharaoh saith unto Jacob, `How many `are' the days of the years of
thy life?'
GEN 47:9 And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings
`are' an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years
of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my
fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
GEN 47:10 And Jacob blesseth Pharaoh, and goeth out from before Pharaoh.
GEN 47:11 And Joseph settleth his father and his brethren, and giveth to them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of
Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded;
GEN 47:12 and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house
of his father `with' bread, according to the mouth of the infants.
GEN 47:13 And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine `is' very
grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the
famine;
GEN 47:14 and Joseph gathereth all the silver that is found in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn that they are buying, and Joseph
bringeth the silver into the house of Pharaoh.
GEN 47:15 And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the
land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, `Give to us
bread -- why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?'
GEN 47:16 and Joseph saith, `Give your cattle; and I give to you for your
cattle, if the money hath ceased.'
GEN 47:17 And they bring in their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph giveth to them
bread, for the horses, and for the cattle of the flock, and for the cattle of
the herd, and for the asses; and he tendeth them with bread, for all their
cattle, during that year.
GEN 47:18 And that year is finished, and they come in unto him on the second
year, and say to him, `We do not hide from my lord, that since the money hath
been finished, and possession of the cattle `is' unto my lord, there hath not
been left before my lord save our bodies, and our ground;
GEN 47:19 why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and
our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give
seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'
GEN 47:20 And Joseph buyeth all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the
Egyptians have sold each his field, for the famine hath been severe upon them,
and the land becometh Pharaoh's;
GEN 47:21 as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the `one' end of
the border of Egypt even unto its `other' end.
GEN 47:22 Only the ground of the priests he hath not bought, for the priests
have a portion from Pharaoh, and they have eaten their portion which Pharaoh
hath given to them, therefore they have not sold their ground.
GEN 47:23 And Joseph saith unto the people, `Lo, I have bought you to-day and
your ground for Pharaoh; lo, seed for you, and ye have sown the ground,
GEN 47:24 and it hath come to pass in the increases, that ye have given a fifth
to Pharaoh, and four of the parts are for yourselves, for seed of the field, and
for your food, and for those who `are' in your houses, and for food for your
infants.'
GEN 47:25 And they say, `Thou hast revived us; we find grace in the eyes of my
lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh;'
GEN 47:26 and Joseph setteth it for a statute unto this day, concerning the
ground of Egypt, `that' Pharaoh hath a fifth; only the ground of the priests
alone hath not become Pharaoh's.
GEN 47:27 And Israel dwelleth in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and
they have possession in it, and are fruitful, and multiply exceedingly;
GEN 47:28 and Jacob liveth in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of
Jacob, the years of his life, are an hundred and forty and seven years.
GEN 47:29 And the days of Israel are near to die, and he calleth for his son,
for Joseph, and saith to him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine
eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and thou hast done with me
kindness and truth; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt,
GEN 47:30 and I have lain with my fathers, and thou hast borne me out of Egypt,
and buried me in their burying-place.' And he saith, `I -- I do according to thy
word;'
GEN 47:31 and he saith, `Swear to me;' and he sweareth to him, and Israel boweth
himself on the head of the bed.
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