Genesis 47

¹ And coming is Joseph and telling Pharaoh, and is saying to him, "My father and my brothers, and their flocks and their herds, and all that is theirs, come from the land of Canaan. And behold them in the land of Goshen." ² And from the outstanding men of his brothers he takes with him five mortals, and putting them is he before Pharaoh. ³ And saying is Pharaoh to Joseph's brothers, "What is your occupation?" And saying are they to Pharaoh, "Graziers of flocks are your servants, both we and our forefathers." ⁴ And saying are they to Pharaoh, "To sojourn in the land have we come, for no pasture is there for the flocks which are your servants', for heavy is the famine in the land of Canaan. And now, pray, dwell will your servants in the land of Goshen." ⁵ And speaking is Pharaoh to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. ⁶ The land of Egypt, before you is it. In the best of the land cause your father and your brothers to dwell. Dwelling are they in the land of Goshen. And should you, forsooth, know able mortals among them, then place them as chiefs over the cattle which are mine." ⁷ And bringing is Joseph Jacob, his father, and is standing him before Pharaoh. And Jacob is blessing Pharaoh. ⁸ And saying is Pharaoh to Jacob, "How have been the days of the years of your life?" ⁹ And saying is Jacob to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my life's sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil come to be the days of the years of my life, and they do not overtake the days of the years of the life of my forefathers in the days of their sojournings." ¹⁰ And blessing is Jacob Pharaoh and is faring forth from before Pharaoh. ¹¹ And Joseph located his father and his brothers, and is giving to them a freehold in the land of Egypt in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh instructs. ¹² And sustaining is Joseph his father and his brothers and all his father's household. And there is bread for the mouths of the tots. ¹³ And bread there is none in all the land, for heavy is the famine exceedingly, and frantic is the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in view of the famine. ¹⁴ And gleaning is Joseph all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for the victuals which they are purchasing for their ration. And bringing is Joseph all the money to Pharaoh's house. ¹⁵ And spent is all the money in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan. And coming are all in Egypt to Joseph, saying, "Grant us bread! Why should we die in front of you? For the limit of our money has been reached." ¹⁶ And saying is Joseph, "Grant your cattle, and give it will I to you, bread for your cattle, if the money reaches its limit." ¹⁷ And bringing are they their cattle to Joseph, and giving is Joseph to them bread for horses, and for cattle of the flocks, and for cattle of the herds, and for asses. And sustaining them is he with bread, and fodder for all their cattle in that year. ¹⁸ And spent is that year. And coming are they to him in the second year, and saying to him, "Not suppress will we from my lord that spent is the money, and the cattle and the beasts belong to my lord, then nothing remains before my lord, barring our bodies and our ground. ¹⁹ Why shall we die before your eyes and our ground be desolate? Buy us and our ground with bread, and we and our ground will become servants of Pharaoh. And give seed for sowing and we shall live and not die, and the ground will not be desolate." ²⁰ And buying is Joseph all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sell to Pharaoh each man his field, seeing that a fast hold has the famine over them. And coming is the land to be Pharaoh's. ²¹ And the people are made to serve him as servants from one end of Egypt's boundary unto its other end. ²² But the ground of the priests alone, this Joseph does not buy, for there is a statutory dole for the priests from Pharaoh, and they eat the statutory dole which Pharaoh gives to them. Therefore they did not sell their ground. ²³ And saying is Joseph to all the Egyptians, "Behold! Buy do I you today, with your ground, for Pharaoh. Lo! for you there is seed, and sow shall you the ground. ²⁴ And it comes, of the incomes, you give the fifth handful to Pharaoh, and four handfuls shall become yours, for seed for the field, and for your food, and for all who are in your household, and for food for your tots." ²⁵ And saying are they, "Preserving are you our lives. Finding are we grace in the eyes of my lord, and we become Pharaoh's servants." ²⁶ And Joseph is constituting it for a statute over the ground of Egypt till this day - to Pharaoh a fifth. But the ground of the priests, theirs alone does not become Pharaoh's. ²⁷ And dwelling is Israel in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And holdings have they in it and are fruitful, and increasing exceedingly. ²⁸ And living is Jacob in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And coming are the days of the years of Jacob's life to be a hundred and forty-seven years. ²⁹ And near are drawing the days of Israel's death, and he is calling his son Joseph and is saying to him, "Pray, should I find grace in your eyes, pray place your hand under my thigh and pray deal with me in kindness and truth. Pray, you must not entomb me in Egypt. ³⁰ Lay me with my fathers, and carry me from Egypt and entomb me in their tomb." And saying is he, "I will do according to your word. ³¹ And saying is he, "Swear to me." And swearing is he to him. And worshiping is Israel on the head of his staff.