Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Genesis:
Chapter 47
1. THEN
Joseph came and told Phar-aoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and
their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of
the land of Ca-na-an; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2. And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them
unto Phar-aoh.
3. And Phar-aoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation?
And they said unto Phar-aoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and
also our fathers.
4. They said moreover unto Phar-aoh, For to sojourn in the land are we
come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine
is sore in the land of Ca-na-an: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy
servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5. And Phar-aoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren
are come unto thee:
6. The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy
father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and
if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers
over my cattle.
7. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Phar-aoh:
and Jacob blessed Phar-aoh.
8. And Phar-aoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
9. And Jacob said unto Phar-aoh, 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 attained unto the days of the years of the
life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
10. And Jacob blessed Phar-aoh, and went out from before Phar-aoh.
11. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of
Ram-e-ses, as Phar-aoh had commanded.
12. And 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
sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Ca-na-an fainted by
reason of the famine.
14. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Ca-na-an, for the corn which they bought: and
Joseph brought the money into Phar-aoh's house.
15. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Ca-na-an,
all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why
should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
16. And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your
cattle, if money fail.
17. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and 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 unto 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 hath our herds of cattle; there is not aught left in
the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19. Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy
us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto
Phar-aoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land
be not desolate.
20. And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Phar-aoh; for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over
them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
21. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the
borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
22. Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a
portion assigned them of Phar-aoh, and did eat their portion which
Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
23. Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day
and your land for Phar-aoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow
the land.
24. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the
fifth part unto Phar-aoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of
the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for
food for your little ones.
25. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the
sight of my lord, and we will be Phar-aoh's servants.
26. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that
Phar-aoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests
only, which became not Pharaoh's.
27. And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and
they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole
age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
29. And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son
Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put,
I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me;
bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
30. But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of
Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do
as thou hast said.
31. And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And
Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
Jan. 19 Daily reading schedule.. go to chapter 48
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