Genesis 47:1-15 ▼

1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, |My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan. And look, they are in the land of Goshen.|

2 And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh.

3 Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, |What is your occupation?| And they said to Pharaoh, |Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.|

4 And they said to Pharaoh, |We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.|

5 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, |Your father and your brothers have come to you,

6 and the land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.|

7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob, and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed 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 of the years of my sojourning are one hundred thirty years. Few and difficult have been the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.|

10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from Pharaoh’s presence.

11 Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Raamses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, according to the number of their dependents.

13 Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan grew weak because of the famine.

14 Joseph gathered up all of the money to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain they were purchasing. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s treasury.

15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, |Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.|