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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. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and pre­sent­ed them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your oc­cu­pa­tion? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy ser­vants are shep­herds, both we, and also 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 flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now there­fore, we pray thee, let thy ser­vants dwell in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, say­ing, Thy fa­ther and thy brethren are come unto thee: 6 The land of Egypt is be­fore thee; in the best of the land make thy fa­ther and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou know­est any men of ac­tiv­i­ty among them, then make them rulers over my cat­tle. 7 And Joseph brought in Ja­cob his fa­ther, and set him be­fore Pharaoh: and Ja­cob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Ja­cob, How old art thou? 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. 10 And Ja­cob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from be­fore Pharaoh. 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. 12 And Joseph nour­ished his fa­ther, and his brethren, and all his father's house­hold, with bread, ac­cord­ing to their fam­i­lies. 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. 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. 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 thy pres­ence? for the mon­ey faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cat­tle; and I will give you for your cat­tle, if mon­ey fail. 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. 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 hath our herds of cat­tle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bod­ies, and our lands: 19 Where­fore shall we die be­fore thine 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 ye shall sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass in the in­crease, that ye 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. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's ser­vants. 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. 27 And Is­rael dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the coun­try of Goshen; and they had pos­ses­sions there­in, and grew, and mul­ti­plied ex­ceed­ing­ly. 28 And Ja­cob lived in the land of Egypt sev­en­teen years: so the whole age of Ja­cob was an hun­dred forty and sev­en years. 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 thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand un­der my thigh, and deal kind­ly and tru­ly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 30 But I will lie with my fa­thers, and thou shalt car­ry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their bury­ing­place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Is­rael bowed him­self upon the bed's head.