¹Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh , and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks , their herds , and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan ; and behold , they are in the land of Goshen .”

²From amongst his brothers he took five men , and presented them to Pharaoh .

³Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation ?”

They said to Pharaoh , “Your servants are shepherds , both we , and our fathers.”

⁴They also said to Pharaoh , “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants ’ flocks . For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan . Now therefore , please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen .”

⁵Pharaoh spoke to Joseph , saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

⁶The land of Egypt is before you . Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land . Let them dwell in the land of Goshen . If you know any able men amongst them , then put them in charge of my livestock .”

⁷Joseph brought in Jacob , his father, and set him before Pharaoh ; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh .

⁸Pharaoh said to Jacob , “How old are you ?”

⁹Jacob said to Pharaoh , “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years . The days of the years of my life have been few and evil . They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage .”

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

¹¹Joseph placed 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 .

¹²Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread , according to the sizes of their families .

¹³There was no bread in all the land ; for the famine was very severe , so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine .

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

¹⁵When 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 bread , for why should we die in your presence ? For our money fails.”

¹⁶Joseph said, “Give me your livestock ; and I will give you food for your livestock , if your money is gone.”

¹⁷They brought their livestock to Joseph , and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses , and for the flocks , and for the herds , and for the donkeys : and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year .

¹⁸When that year was ended , they came to him the second year , and said to him , “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent , and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies , and our lands.

¹⁹Why 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 servants to Pharaoh . Give us seed , that we may live , and not die , and that the land won’t be desolate .”

²⁰So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh , for every man of the Egyptians sold his field , because the famine was severe on them , and the land became Pharaoh ’s.

²¹As for the people , he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it .

²²Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests , for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh , and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them . That is why they didn’t sell their land.

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

²⁴It will happen at the harvests , that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh , and four parts will be your own , for seed of the field , for your food , for them of your households , and for food for your little ones .”

²⁵They said, “You have saved our lives ! Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh ’s servants .”

²⁶Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day , that Pharaoh should have the fifth . Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh ’s.

²⁷Israel lived in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen ; and they got themselves possessions therein , and were fruitful , and multiplied exceedingly .

²⁸Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years . So the days of Jacob , the years of his life , were one hundred and forty-seven years .

²⁹The time came near that Israel must die , and he called his son Joseph , and said to him , “If now I have found favour in your sight , please put your hand under my thigh , and deal kindly and truly with me . Please don’t bury me in Egypt ,

³⁰but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt , and bury me in their burying place .”

Joseph said , “I will do as you have said .”

³¹Israel said, “Swear to me ,” and he swore to him . Then Israel bowed himself on the bed ’s head .