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Genesis 47 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Jacob’s Family Settles in Goshen

Gen 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.”

Gen 47:2And he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
Gen 47:3Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”
Gen 47:4They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside 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 live in the land of Goshen.”
Gen 47:5Then Pharaoh said to [fn]Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Gen 47:6“The land of Egypt is [fn]at your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then [fn]put them in charge of my livestock.”
Gen 47:7

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and [fn]presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Gen 47:8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many [fn]years have you lived?”
Gen 47:9So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The [fn]years of my living abroad are [fn]130; 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 living abroad.”
Gen 47:10So Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from [fn]his presence.
Gen 47:11Now 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 Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
Gen 47:12Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with [fn]food, according to the [fn]number of their little ones.
Gen 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.

Gen 47:14And Joseph collected all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in payment for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
Gen 47:15When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph saying, “Give us [fn]food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is [fn]gone.”
Gen 47:16Then Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock, since your money is [fn]gone.”
Gen 47:17So 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.
Gen 47:18But when that year ended, they came to him the [fn]next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the [fn]livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left [fn]for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
Gen 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, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Result of the Famine

Gen 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. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

Gen 47:21As for the people, he relocated them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.
Gen 47:22Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because 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.
Gen 47:23Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, today I have purchased you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.
Gen 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.”
Gen 47:25So they said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
Gen 47:26Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, valid to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth; only the land of the priests [fn]did not become Pharaoh’s.
Gen 47:27

Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in [fn]Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.

Gen 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years; so the [fn]length of Jacob’s life was 147 years.
Gen 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 your hand under my thigh now and deal with me in kindness and [fn]faithfulness: please do not bury me in Egypt,

Gen 47:30but when I [fn]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.”
Gen 47:31And he said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit Joseph, saying
Lit before you
Lit appoint them rulers
Lit set him before
Lit are the days of the years of your life
Lit days of the years
Lit 130 years
Lit evil
Lit days of the years
Lit reached
Lit days of the years
Lit of the life of my fathers
Lit Pharaoh’s
Or bread
Lit mouth
Or bread
Or bread
Lit at an end
Lit at an end
Or bread
Lit livestock of the flocks and livestock of the herds
Lit led them as a shepherd
Or bread
Lit in that year
Lit second
Lit livestock of the cattle
Lit in the presence of
Or bread
Lit Egypt, every man
Lit ate their allotment
Lit It shall come about...that you shall
Lit four parts
Lit alone did
Lit the land of Goshen
Lit days of Jacob, the years of his life
Lit the days of Israel
Lit truth
I.e., die
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