47:1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
47:2 And he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
47:3 Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”
47:4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside 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 live in the land of Goshen.”
47:5 Then Pharaoh said to ①Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
▷ ①Lit Joseph, saying
47:6 The land of Egypt is ①at your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then ②put them in charge of my livestock.”
▷ ①Lit before you ②Lit appoint them rulers
47:7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and ①presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
▷ ①Lit set him before
47:8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many ①years have you lived?”
▷ ①Lit are the days of the years of your life
47:9 So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The ①years of my living abroad are ②130; few and ③unpleasant have been the ④years of my life, nor have they ⑤attained the ⑥years ⑦that my fathers lived during the days of their living abroad.”
▷ ①Lit days of the years ②Lit 130 years ③Lit evil ④Lit days of the years ⑤Lit reached ⑥Lit days of the years ⑦Lit of the life of my fathers
47:10 So Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from ①his presence.
▷ ①Lit Pharaoh’s
47:11 Now Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
47:12 Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with ①food, according to the ②number of their little ones.
▷ ①Or bread ②Lit mouth
47:13 Now there was no ①food in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.
▷ ①Or bread
47:14 And Joseph collected all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in payment for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
47:15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph saying, “Give us ①food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is ②gone.”
▷ ①Or bread ②Lit at an end
47:16 Then Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock, since your money is ①gone.”
▷ ①Lit at an end
47:17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them ①food in exchange for the horses and the ②flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he ③fed them with ④food in exchange for all their livestock ⑤that year.
▷ ①Or bread ②Lit livestock of the flocks and livestock of the herds ③Lit led them as a shepherd ④Or bread ⑤Lit in that year
47:18 But when that year ended, they came to him the ①next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the ②livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left ③for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
▷ ①Lit second ②Lit livestock of the cattle ③Lit in the presence of
47:19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for ①food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
▷ ①Or bread
47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for ①every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.
▷ ①Lit Egypt, every man
47:21 As for the people, he relocated them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.
47:22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they ①lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.
▷ ①Lit ate their allotment
47:23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, today I have purchased you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.
47:24 ①At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and ②four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food, and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”
▷ ①Lit It shall come about...that you shall ②Lit four parts
47:25 So they said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
47:26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, valid to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth; only the land of the priests ①did not become Pharaoh’s.
▷ ①Lit alone did
47:27 Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in ①Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.
▷ ①Lit the land of Goshen
47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years; so the ①length of Jacob’s life was 147 years.
▷ ①Lit days of Jacob, the years of his life
47:29 When ①the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place your hand under my thigh now and deal with me in kindness and ②faithfulness: please do not bury me in Egypt,
▷ ①Lit the days of Israel ②Lit truth
47:30 but when I ①lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”
▷ ①I.e., die
47:31 And he said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.