Gen 47
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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.
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And he took of his brethren five men, and set them before Pharao.
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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.
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And they said to Pharao, We are come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture
for the flocks of your servants, for the famine has prevailed in the land of Chanaan;
now then, Or, let us dwell; See 1 Ti 6:8 we will dwell in the land of Gesem. And Pharao said to Joseph, Let them dwell in
the land of Gesem; and if you know that there are among them able men, make them overseers
of my cattle. So Jacob and his sons came into Egypt, to Joseph; and Pharao, king of
Egypt, heard of it.
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And Pharao spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father, and your brethren, are come to you.
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Behold, the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brethren in the
best land.
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And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharao; and Jacob blessed
Pharao.
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And Pharao said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of your life?
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And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are
a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life,
they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.
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And Jacob blessed Pharao, and departed from him.
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And Joseph settled his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the
land of Egypt, in the best land, in the land of Ramesses, as Pharao commanded.
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And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of
his father, corn for each person.
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And there was no corn in all the land, for the famine prevailed greatly; and the land
of Egypt, and the land of Chanaan, fainted for the famine.
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And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and the land
of Chanaan, in return for the corn which they bought, and he distributed corn to them;
and Joseph brought all the money into the house of Pharao.
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And all the money failed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Chanaan;
and all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread, and why do we die in
your presence? for our money is spent.
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And Joseph said to them, Bring your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle,
if your money is spent.
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And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in return for
their horses, and for their sheep, and for their oxen, and for their asses; and Joseph
maintained them with bread for all their cattle in that year.
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And that year passed, and they came to him in the second year, and said to him, Must
we 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 own bodies and our land, we are indeed destitute.
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In order, then, that we die not before you, and the land be made desolate, buy us
and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharao: give seed
that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate.
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And Joseph bought all the land of the Egyptians, for Pharao; for the Egyptians sold
their land to Pharao; for the famine prevailed against them, and the land became Pharao’s.
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And he brought the people into bondage to him, for servants, from one extremity of
Egypt to the other,
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except only the land of the priests; Joseph bought not this, for Pharao gave a portion
in the way of gift to the priests; and they ate their portion which Pharao gave them;
therefore they sold not their land.
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And Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Behold, I have bought you and your land this
day for Pharao; take seed for you, and sow the land.
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And there shall be the fruits of it; and you shall give the fifth part to Pharao,
and the four remaining parts shall be for yourselves, for seed for the earth, and
for food for you, and all that are in your houses.
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And they said, You have saved us; we have found favour before our lord, and we will
be servants to Pharao.
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And Joseph appointed it to them for an ordinance until this day; to reserve a fifth
part for Pharao, on the land of Egypt, except only the land of the priests, that was
not Pharao’s.
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And Israel dwelt in Egypt, in the land of Gesem, and they gained an inheritance upon
it; and they increased and multiplied very greatly.
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And Jacob survived seventeen years in the land of Egypt; and Jacob’s days of the years
of his life were a hundred and forty-seven years.
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and the days of Israel drew nigh for him to die: and he called his son Joseph, and
said to him, If I have found favour before you, put your hand under my thigh, and
you shall execute mercy and truth toward me, so as not to bury me in Egypt.
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But I will sleep with my fathers, and you shall carry me up out of Egypt, and bury
me in their sepulcher. And he said, I will do according to your word.
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And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel did reverence, leaning on
the top of his staff.