Gen 47 | EngLXX | STEP | And Joseph came and told Pharao, saying , My father, and my brethren, and their cattle, and their oxen, and all their possessions,are come out of the land of Chanaan, and behold, they are in the land of Gesem.

Genesis 47

1 And Joseph came and told Pharao,saying, My father, and my brethren, and their cattle, and their oxen, and all their possessions,are come out of the land of Chanaan, and behold, they are in the land of Gesem. 2 And he took of his brethren five men, and set them before Pharao. 3 And Pharao said to the brethren of Joseph, What is your occupation? and they said to Pharao,Your servants are shepherds, both we and our father. 4 And they said to Pharao, We are come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture forthe flocks of your servants, for the famine has prevailed in the land of Chanaan; now then, we will dwellin the land of Gesem. And Pharao said to Joseph, Let them dwell in the land of Gesem; and if you knowthat there are among them able men, make them overseers of my cattle. So Jacob and his sons came intoEgypt, to Joseph; and Pharao, king of Egypt, heardof it. 5 And Pharao spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father, and your brethren, are come to you. 6 Behold, the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brethren in the bestland. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharao; and Jacob blessed Pharao. 8 And Pharao said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of your life? 9 And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundredand thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to thedays of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharao, and departed from him. 11 And Joseph settled his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the landof Egypt, in the best land, in the land of Ramesses, as Pharao commanded. 12 And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of hisfather, corn for each person. 13 And there was no corn in all the land, for the famine prevailed greatly; and the landof Egypt, and the land of Chanaan, fainted for the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and the land ofChanaan,in return for the corn which they bought, and he distributed corn to them; and Joseph broughtall the money into the house of Pharao. 15 And all the money failed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Chanaan; andall the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread, and why do we die in your presence? for our moneyis spent. 16 And Joseph said to them, Bring your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle,if your money is spent. 17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in return for theirhorses, and for their sheep, and for their oxen, and for their asses; and Joseph maintained them withbread for all their cattle in that year. 18 And that year passed, and they came to him in the second year, and said to him, Mustwe then be consumed from before our lord? for if our money has failed, and our possessions, and our cattle,brought to you our lord, and there has not been left to us before our lord more than our ownbodies and our land,we are indeed destitute. 19 In order, then, that we die not before you, and the land be made desolate, buy us andour land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharao: give seed that we may sow, and liveand not die, so our land shall not be made desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of the Egyptians, for Pharao; for the Egyptians sold theirland to Pharao; for the famine prevailed against them, and the land became Pharao's. 21 And he brought the people into bondage to him, for servants, from one extremity of Egyptto the other, 22 except only the land of the priests; Joseph bought not this, for Pharao gave a portionin the way of gift to the priests; and they ate their portion which Pharao gave them; therefore they soldnot their land. 23 And Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Behold, I have bought you and your land this dayfor Pharao; take seed for you, and sow the land. 24 And there shall be the fruits of it; and you⌃ shall give the fifth part to Pharao, andthe fourremaining parts shall be for yourselves, for seed for the earth, and for food for you, andall that are in your houses. 25 And they said, You have saved us; we have found favor before our lord, and we will beservants to Pharao. 26 And Joseph appointed it to them for an ordinance until this day; to reserve a fifth partfor Pharao, on the land of Egypt, except only the land of the priests, that was not Pharao's. 27 And Israel lived in Egypt, in the land of Gesem, and they gained an inheritance uponit; and they increased and multiplied very greatly. 28 And Jacob survived seventeen years in the land of Egypt; and Jacob's days of the yearsof his life were a hundred and forty-seven years. 29 and the days of Israel drew near for him to die: and he called his son Joseph, and saidto him, If I have found favor before you, put your hand under my thigh, and you shall execute mercy andtruth toward me, so as not to bury me in Egypt. 30 But I will sleep with my fathers, and you shall carry me up out of Egypt, and bury mein their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to your word. 31 And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel did reverence, leaning on thetop of his staff.