Genesis 47 - LSB Bible Online

Genesis 47

Jacob’s Family Settles in Goshen

Then ^aJoseph 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 ^bGoshen.” 2 And he took five men from among his brothers and ^aset them before Pharaoh. 3 Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “^aWhat is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are ^bshepherds, both we and our fathers.” 4 And they said to Pharaoh, “^aWe have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for ^bthe famine is heavy in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants ¹^clive in the land of Goshen.” 5 Then Pharaoh said to ¹Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The land of Egypt is ¹at your disposal; have your father and your brothers settle in ^athe best of the land, let them settle in the land of Goshen; and if you know any ^bexcellent men among them, then ²put them in charge of my livestock.”
7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and stood him before Pharaoh; and Jacob ^ablessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” 9 So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days ^aof the years of my sojourning are ¹130; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not ²attained to ^bthe days of the years ³that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.” 10 And Jacob ^ablessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in ^athe best of the land, in the land of ^bRameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph ^aprovided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with ¹food, according to their little ones.

Joseph and the Famine

13 Now there was no ¹food in all the land because the famine was very heavy, so that ^athe land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine. 14 ^aAnd Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. 15 Then the money came to an end in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan. So all the Egyptians came to Joseph ¹and said, “Give us ²food, for ^awhy should we die in your presence? For our money ³is gone.” 16 Then Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock, since your money ¹is gone.” 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 ¹food in exchange for all their livestock ⁴that year. 18 Then that year came to an end. And they came to him the ¹next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money has come to an end, and the ²livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left ³for my lord except our bodies and our land. 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, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for ¹every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s. 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end. 22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they ate off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land. 23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land. 24 And it will be, at the harvest you shall give a ^afifth to Pharaoh, and ¹four-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.” 25 So they said, “You have kept us alive! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.” 26 And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; ^aonly the land of the priests ¹did not become Pharaoh’s.
27 Now Israel ¹lived in the land of Egypt, ²in Goshen, and they ^atook possession of property in it and ^bwere fruitful and became very numerous. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt ^aseventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.
29 Then ^athe days for Israel to die drew near, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, ^bplace now your hand under my thigh and ^cdeal with me in lovingkindness and truth. Please do not bury me in Egypt. 30 But I will ^alie down with my fathers, and you will carry me out of Egypt and bury me in ^btheir burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.” 31 Then he said, “^aSwear to me.” So he swore to him. Then ^bIsrael bowed in worship at the head of the bed.

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