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Genesis 47 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Jacob's Family Settles in Goshen

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Then Joseph 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 Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:2 - He took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - 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. Now, therefore, please let your servants [fn]live in the land of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:5 - Then Pharaoh said to [fn]Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:6 - “The land of Egypt is [fn]at your disposal; [fn]settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them [fn]live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then [fn]put them in charge of my livestock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:7 - Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and [fn]presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:8 - Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many [fn]years have you lived?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The [fn]years of my sojourning are one hundred and [fn]thirty; few and [fn]unpleasant have been the [fn]years of my life, nor have they [fn]attained the [fn]years [fn]that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:10 - And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from [fn]his presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph [fn]settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12 - Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with [fn]food, according to their little ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - Now there was no [fn]food in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph [fn]and said, “Give us [fn]food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money [fn]is gone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:16 - Then Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock, since your money [fn]is gone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them [fn]food in exchange for the horses and the [fn]flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he [fn]fed them with [fn]food in exchange for all their livestock [fn]that year.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was ended, they came to him the [fn]next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the [fn]cattle are my lord’s. There is nothing left [fn]for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for [fn]food, 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.”

Result of the Famine

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for [fn]every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21 - As for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they [fn]lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:24 - [fn]At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and [fn]four-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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:25 - So they said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests [fn]did not become Pharaoh’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Now Israel [fn]lived in the land of Egypt, in [fn]Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the [fn]length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - When [fn]the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh and deal with me in kindness and [fn]faithfulness. Please do not bury me in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - but when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:31 - He said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: dwell
Literally: Joseph, saying
Literally: before you
Literally: cause them to dwell
Literally: dwell
Literally: appoint them rulers
Literally: set him before
Literally: are the days of the years of your life
Literally: days of the years
Literally: thirty years
Literally: evil
Literally: reached
Literally: of the life of my fathers
Literally: Pharaoh's
Literally: caused to dwell
Or, bread
Or, bread
Literally: saying
Or, bread
Literally: ceases
Literally: ceases
Or, bread
Literally: livestock of the flocks and livestock of the herds
Literally: led them as a shepherd
Literally: in that year
Literally: second
Literally: livestock of the cattle
Literally: in the presence of
Or, bread
Literally: Egypt, every man
Literally: ate their allotment
Literally: It shall come about...that you shall
Literally: four parts
Literally: alone did
Literally: dwelt
Literally: in the land of Goshen
Literally: days of Jacob, the years of his life
Literally: the days of Israel to die drew near
Literally: truth
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