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19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we will be—we and our land—servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed, and we will live and not die, that the land will not be desolate.” 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of Egypt sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. And the land became unto Pharaoh. 21 And the people—he reduced them to servitude, from one end of the border of Egypt and to its other end. 22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for a fixed portion belonged to the priests from Pharaoh, and they ate their fixed portion that Pharaoh gave to them. Upon thus they did not sell their land. 23 And Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you? this day, and your? land, for Pharaoh. Behold, seed for you?, and you? shall sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass at the harvest that you? shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four of the hands shall be for you?: As seed of the field, and for your? eating, and for those in your? houses, and to eat for your? little ones.” 25 And they said, “You have caused us to live. We find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will be servants to Pharaoh.” 26 And Joseph made it a statute to this day over the land of Egypt: For Pharaoh, the fifth. Only the land of the priests, which is unto them alone and has not come to belong to Pharaoh. 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they took possession in it, and they were fruitful, and they multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seven and ten years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were seven years and forty and a hundred years. 29 And the days drew near for Israel to die, and he called for his son, for Joseph, and said to him, “If, please, I have found favor in your eyes, put, please, your hand under my thigh, and you shall do with me kindness and truth. Please, do not bury me in Egypt, 30 and I shall lie with my fathers. And you shall carry me out of Egypt and you shall bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I—I will do according to your word.” 31 And he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him, and Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed. Genesis 47:19-31, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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