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Genesis 47 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jacob’s Family Settles in Goshen

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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 - And he took five men from among his brothers and set them before 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 - 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 heavy in the land of Canaan. So now, 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; have your father and your brothers settle in the best of the land, let them settle in the land of Goshen; and if you know any excellent men among them, then [fn]put them in charge of my livestock.”
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Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and stood him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:8 - And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are [fn]130; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not [fn]attained to the days of the 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 the presence of Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph 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 commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12 - And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with [fn]food, according to their little ones.

Joseph and the Famine

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Now there was no [fn]food in all the land because the famine was very heavy, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - And 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 - Then the money came to an end in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan. So 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 - Then that year came to an end. And they came to him the [fn]next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money has come to an end, and the [fn]livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left [fn]for my lord except our bodies and our land.
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.”
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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 moved them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end.
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 ate 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 - “And it will be, 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 kept us alive! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - And 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.
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Now Israel [fn]lived in the land of Egypt, [fn]in Goshen, and they took possession of property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.
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Then the days for Israel to die drew near, and 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 lovingkindness and truth. Please do not bury me in Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - “But I will lie down with my fathers, and you will 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 - Then he said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.
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