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47 Then went Yosef to Far’oh and told him, “My father and brothers and their flocks and herds and everything that belongs to them, have come from Canaan and they’re here now Goshen area.” 2 Then he took five of his brothers and presented them to Far’oh, 3 and Far’oh asked them, “What’s your occupation?”
“Your servants have been shepherds for several generations,” they replied. 4 Then they explained, “We’ve come to stay here for a while because in Canaan, there’s no pasture for our flocks because the drought is very severe. So now, please let your servants settle in the Goshen area.” 5 Then Far’oh turned to Yosef, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The entire country of Egypt is in front of you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best land, so let them settle in the Goshen area. And if you’re aware that some of them have special talents, then appoint them as overseers of my own livestock as well.”
7 Then Yosef brought his father Yacob and presented him to Far’oh, and Yacob blessed Far’oh. 8 “How old are you?” Far’oh asked him.
9 “I’ve been moving from place to place for 130 years,” Yacob replied. “My life has been short and with many difficulties, so I haven’t reached the longer ages of my ancestors in their moving around.” 10 Then he blessed Far’oh again and departed from his presence. 11 So Yosef gave his father and his brothers some of the best land in Egypt and helped them settle there—in the Rameses district just as Far’oh had commanded. 12 He also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with bread—each family according to the number of children.
47:13 Yosef’s leadership through extreme famine
13 Then the time came when there was no bread in that entire part of the world, because the drought was now extremely severe, and both Egypt and Canaan were suffering from food shortages. 14 People all over came to buy grain, and over time Yosef had received in payment all the silver that could be found in Egypt and Canaan, and he in turn took it to Far’oh’s house. 15 So once there was no more silver left in Egypt and in Canaan, all the Egyptians demanded from Yosef, “Give us food. Why should we die right here in front of you? All our money is gone!”
16 “Bring your livestock,” Yosef answered, “and I’ll give grain to you in exchange for them, since the silver is gone.” 17 So the people brought their livestock to him, and he gave them grain in exchange for their horses and sheep and cattle and donkeys. So he provided them with food that year in exchange for all their livestock.
18 The next year they came to Yosef and begged, “We can’t hide it from our master that since there’s no silver left and since all the livestock now belongs to our lord, there’s nothing left to offer other than our bodies and our lands. 19 Why should we die right in front of you—both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Far’oh. And give us seed so that we’ll live and not die, and so that the land won’t be barren.”
20 So Yosef bought all the farmland of Egypt for Far’oh, because every Egyptian sold his field. In that way, all the land became Far’oh’s because the famine was so extreme. 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities[fn] from one end of Egypt to the other. 22 The only land he didn’t buy was that of the priests, because they were given a regular allowance by Far’oh. Because they could live on what they were supplied with, they didn’t need to sell their land. 23 Then Yosef told the people, “Listen, now that I’ve bought you and your land for Far’oh, here is seed for you so that you can work the ground. 24 Every time you harvest a crop, you must give a fifth of it to Far’oh. The other four parts will be for you to use as seed and as food for yourselves and your households and your young children.”
25 “You’ve kept us alive,” they agreed. “Master, continue to show us your favour, and we’ll be slaves for Far’oh.” 26 So Yosef established it as a law to this day concerning the Egyptian farmland: that the fifth belongs to Far’oh. (Only the priests’ land didn’t become Far’oh’s.)
47:27 Yacob’s burial request
27 So Yisra’el (Yacob) and his descendants settled in the Goshen region of Egypt and prospered. The had many children and quickly increased in number. 28 Yacob resided there for seventeen years, and by then he was 147 years old 29 and he was getting close to death, so he called for his son Yosef and asked him, “If, please, I have found favour in your eyes, please give me your hand and promise to deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. Please don’t bury me in Egypt.[ref] 30 When I die, I want to be buried with my ancestors, so carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb.”
“I’ll do what you’ve requested,” Yosef agreed.
31 “Promise me,” he insisted. So Yosef promised him and Yisra’el bowed at the head of the bed.[fn]
47:21 TC: There’s a variation here in different early copies and translations. Rather than moving the people into the cities (which might have been done to make food distribution more efficient), some translations choose the alternative ‘made the people slaves’.
47:31 Some translations assume that elderly Yacob/Yisra’el bowed to God in worship after speaking with Yosef, but it’s not impossible that he bowed to Yosef in acknowledgement of the high position that God had brought Yosef to as foretold by his dreams.
47:29 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
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