1 Then Yehovah
Will Add (Joseph) came and told Great House (Pharaoh), “My father
and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they
have, have come out of the land of Humbled One (Canaan) and they are
in the land of Drawing Near (Goshen).
2 He took some
of his brethren, five men, and presented them to Great House
(Pharaoh).
3 Great House
(Pharaoh) said to his brethren, “What is
your occupation? They answered Great House (Pharaoh), “Your
servants are shepherds, both
we, and also our fathers.”
4 They also told
Great House (Pharaoh), We have come to dwell for a time because we
have no pasture in the land of Humbled One (Canaan) because of the
famine. So, please, let your servants dwell in the land of Drawing
Near (Goshen).
5 Great House
(Pharaoh) spoke to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), saying, “Your father
and your brethren have come to you.
6 The land of
Double Straights (Egypt) is
before you; make your father and brethren dwell in the best of the
land. Let them dwell in the land of Drawing Near (Goshen). And if you
know any men of ability among
them, make them rulers over my cattle.
7 Then Yehovah
Will Add (Joseph) brought in Heel-Grabber (Jacob) his father, and set
him before the Great House (Pharaoh) and Heel-Grabber (Jacob) blessed
the Great House (Pharaoh).
8 And the Great
House (Pharaoh) said to Heel-Grabber (Jacob), “How old are
you?”
9 Heel-Grabber
(Jacob) replied to Great House (Pharaoh), “The days of the years of
my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. Few and evil
have the days of the years of my life been, and have not even begun
to reach the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days
of their pilgrimage.”
10 And
Heel-Grabber (Jacob) blessed Great House (Pharaoh), and went out from
before the Great House (Pharaoh).
11 Then Yehovah
Will Add (Joseph) placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a
possession in the land of Double Straights (Egypt), in the best of
the land, in the land of Child of the Sun (Rameses), as Great House
(Pharaoh) had commanded.
12 So Yehovah
Will Add (Joseph) nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
father's household, with bread, according to their
families.
13 ¶ And there
was no bread in all the land; for the famine was
very bad, so that the land of Double Straights (Egypt) and all
the land of Humbled One (Canaan) fainted by reason of the famine.
14 Yehovah Will
Add (Joseph) gathered up all the money that was found in the land of
Double Straights (Egypt), and in the land of Humbled One (Canaan),
for the grain which they bought. Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) brought
that money into the Great House's (Pharaoh) house.
15 When money
failed in the land of Double Straights (Egypt), and in the land of
Humbled One (Canaan), all the Double Straighters (Egyptians) came to
Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) and said, “Give us bread! Why should we
die in your presence? Our money is gone,"
16 Yehovah will
Add (Joseph) said, “If your money is gone, I will give you grain
for your animals.”
17 And they
brought their animals to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph). So Yehovah Will
Add (Joseph) gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for
the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and
he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18 When that
year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said unto him,
“We will not hide it from
my lord, how that our money is spent. My lord also has our herds of
cattle; there is not anything left in the sight of my lord, but our
bodies, and our lands:
19 Why should we
die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for
bread, and we and our land will be servants to the Great House
(Pharaoh) and give us seed,
that we may live, and not die, that the land will not be desolate.”
20 Yehovah Will
Add (Joseph) bought all the land of Double Straights (Egypt) for the
Great House (Pharaoh). The Double Straighters (Egyptians) sold every
man his field, because the famine prevailed over them. So the land
became the Great House (Pharaoh)'s.
21 As for the
people, he removed them to cities from one
end of the borders of Double Straights (Egypt) even to the other
end thereof.
22 Only the land
of the priests didn't buy because the priests had a portion assigned
them of the Great House (Pharaoh), and ate their portion
which the Great House (Pharaoh) gave them so they didn't have to sell
their lands.
23 Then Yehovah
Will Add (Joseph) said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you
this day and your land for the Great House (Pharaoh). Here is seed
for you, and you will sow the land.
24 When the
harvest comes in, one part will belong to the Great House (Pharaoh),
and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your
food, and for your households, and for food for your little ones.”
25 And they
said, “You have saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of
my lord, and we will be the Great House's (Pharaoh)servants.”
26 So Yehovah
Will Add (Joseph) made it a law over the land of Double Straights
(Egypt) to this day, that the
Great House (Pharaoh) should have the fifth part;
except the land of the priests only, which
did not become the Great House's (Pharaoh).
27 And
God Prevails (Israel) dwelt in the land of Double Straights (Egypt),
in the country of Drawing Near (Goshen). They possessed that land,
and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 Heel-Grabber
(Jacob) lived in the land of Double Straights (Egypt) seventeen
years: so the whole age of Heel-Grabber (Jacob) was an hundred forty
and seven years.
29 When the time
drew nigh for God Prevails (Israel) to die, he called his son Yehovah
Will Add (Joseph), and said to him, “If now I have found grace in
your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and
truly with me. Please do not bury me in Double Straights (Egypt).
30 But I will
lie with my fathers, and Carry me out of Double Straights (Egypt),
and bury me in their burying place.” Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)
promised, “I will do as you have said.”
31
And
he said, “Swear to me.” So Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) swore to
him. Then God Prevails (Israel) bowed himself upon the bed's head.
