﻿Genesis.
Chapter 47.
Joseph came and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they have, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.” 
He took five men from among his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh. 
Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.” 
They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.” 
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 
The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen. If you know of capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.” 
Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 
Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How many years have you lived?” 
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of my sojourning are one hundred thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years my fathers lived in their sojourning.” 
Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from Pharaoh’s presence. 
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. 
Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the needs of their little ones. 
There was no bread in all the land, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine. 
Joseph gathered all the money found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying. Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. 
When the money in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was exhausted, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us bread! Why should we die before you because the money is gone?” 
Joseph said, “Give me your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if the money is gone.” 
They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, flocks, herds, and donkeys. He sustained them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year. 
When that year ended, they came to him in the second year and said, “We will not hide from my lord that the money is spent and the livestock belongs to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land. 
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and the land may not become desolate.” 
Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine pressed hard upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s. 
As for the people, he moved them to the cities, from one end of Egypt’s territory to the other. 
The only land he did not buy was the priests’ land, because the priests received an allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land. 
Joseph said to the people, “See, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow the land. 
When the harvest comes, you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh. The four remaining shares will be yours, for seed for the field and for food for yourselves, those in your households, and your little ones.” 
They said, “You have saved our lives. May we find favor in my lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.” 
Joseph made this a statute over the land of Egypt, to this day, that a fifth should belong to Pharaoh. Only the priests’ land did not become Pharaoh’s. 
Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. They acquired possessions there, were fruitful, and multiplied greatly. 
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. The days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. 
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh and deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. Please do not bury me in Egypt. 
When I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.” 
He said, “Swear to me.” He swore to him, and Israel bowed down at the head of the bed. 
