Genesis 47:1-10 ▼

1 And Joseph went and told Pharaoh and he said, “My father, and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that is theirs, have come from the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”

2 And from the end of his brothers, he took five men and he presented them before Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What are your? works?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds of sheep, both we and also our fathers.”

4 And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land because there is no pasture for the sheep that your servants have, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

6 The land of Egypt, it is before you. In the best of the land cause your father and your brothers to dwell; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know that there are among them men of valor, then you shall appoint them captains of livestock over what is mine.”

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and he caused him to stand before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”

9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and he went out from before Pharaoh.