1 And Joseph came and declared it to Pharaoh, and said, “My father, and my brothers, and their flock, and their herd, and all they have, have come from the land of Canaan, and look, they are in the land of Goshen.” 2 And out of his brothers he had taken five men, and set them before Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What are your works?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are feeders of a flock, both we and our fathers.” 4 And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for the flock which your servants have, for the famine in the land of Canaan is severe. And now, please let your servants stay in the land of Goshen.” 5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you: 6 the land of Egypt is before you. Cause your father and your brothers to stay in the best of the land—they stay in the land of Goshen, and if you have known, and there are among them men of ability, then you have set them as heads over the livestock I have.” 7 And Joseph brought in his father Jacob, and caused him to stand before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are 130 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.” 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and goes out from before Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave a possession to them in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all the house of his father with bread, according to the mouth of the infants. 13 And there was no bread in all the land, for the famine was very severe, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were feeble because of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered all the silver that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain that they were buying, and Joseph brought the silver into the house of Pharaoh. 15 And the silver was consumed out of the land of Egypt and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, “Give bread to us—why do we die before you, though the money has ceased?” 16 And Joseph said, “Give your livestock. And I give to you for your livestock, if the money has ceased.” 17 And they brought in their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave to them bread, for the horses, and for the livestock of the flock, and for the livestock of the herd, and for the donkeys. and he tended them with bread, for all their livestock, during that year. 18 And that year was finished, and they came to him on the second year, and said to him, “We do not hide from my lord, that since the money has been finished, and possession of the livestock is to my lord, there has not been left before my lord except our bodies, and our ground. 19 Why do we die before your 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 do not die, and the ground is not desolate.” 20 And Joseph bought all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians had each sold his field, for the famine had been severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s. 21 As for the people, he had moved them to cities from the one end of the border of Egypt even to its other end. 22 Only the ground of the priests he had not bought, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and they had eaten their portion which Pharaoh had given to them, therefore they had not sold their ground. 23 And Joseph said to the people, “Look, I have bought you today and your ground for Pharaoh. Look, seed for you, and you have sown the ground, 24 and it has come to pass in the increases, that you 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.” 25 And they said, “You have revived us. We find grace in the eyes of my lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh.” 26 And Joseph set it for a statute to this day, concerning the ground of Egypt, that Pharaoh has a fifth. Only the ground of the priests alone had not become Pharaoh’s. 27 And Israel stayed in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they had possession in it, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years. 29 And the days of Israel were near to die, and he called for his son, for Joseph, and said to him, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and you have done kindness and truth with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt, 30 and I have lain with my fathers, and you have carried me out of Egypt, and buried me in their burying-place.” And he said, “I do according to your word.” 31 and he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him, and Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed.