Jan 9 - Genesis 39-47
Genesis
1Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.2The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.3His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.4So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.5From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in house and field.6So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.7And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."8But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.9He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.11But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,12she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.13And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,14she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.15And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house."16Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,17and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.18But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house."19As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.20And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.21But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.22And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.23The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.
1Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt.2And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,3and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.4The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody.5And one night they both dreamed--the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison--each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.6When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled.7So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"8They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."9So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,10and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes.11Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand."12Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.13In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.14Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.15For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."16When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,17and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head."18And Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.19In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head--from you!--and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you."20On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.21He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.22But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.23Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
1After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,2and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass.3And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.4And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke.5And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.6And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.7And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump, full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.8So in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.9Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "I remember my offenses today.10When Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard,11we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own interpretation.12A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.13And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."16Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."17Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.18Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.19Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.20And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,21but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.22I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good.23Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,24and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.26The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.27The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.28It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.29There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,30but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,31and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.32And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.33Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.34Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years.35And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.36That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."37This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.38And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?"39Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.40You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."42Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.43And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.44Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.46Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.47During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly,48and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.49And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.50Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.51Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."52The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."53The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end,54and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."56So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.57Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
1When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"2And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die."3So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.5Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.6Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.7Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."8And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.9And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land."10They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.11We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies."12He said to them, "No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see."13And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."14But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you. You are spies.15By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.16Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."17And he put them all together in custody for three days.18On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:19if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,20and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.21Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."22And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood."23They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.24Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.25And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.26Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed.27And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.28He said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!" At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"29When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.31But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we have never been spies.32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'33Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"35As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.36And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me."37Then Reuben said to his father, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."38But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
1Now the famine was severe in the land.2And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food."3But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.5But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?"7They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"8And Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.9I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.10If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice."11Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.12Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.13Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man.14May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."15So the men took this present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin. They arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.16When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."17The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph's house.18And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys."19So they went up to the steward of Joseph's house and spoke with him at the door of the house,20and said, "Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food.21And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us,22and we have brought other money down with us to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."23He replied, "Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.24And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder,25they prepared the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.26When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.27And he inquired about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"28They said, "Your servant our father is well; he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.29And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"30Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.31Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, "Serve the food."32They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.33And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth. And the men looked at one another in amazement.34Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.
1Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,2and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys.4They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?5Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"6When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!8Behold, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?9Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord's servants."10He said, "Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent."11Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.12And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.13Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.14When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.15Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?"16And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."17But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."18Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.19My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'20And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'21Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'22We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'23Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'24"When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.25And when our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food,'26we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'27Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.28One left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.'30"Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life,31as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.32For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'33Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father."
1Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.2And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.3And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.4So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.5And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.6For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.7And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.8So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.9Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.10You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.11There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'12And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.13You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here."14Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.15And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.16When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,18and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'19And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.20Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"21The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.22To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.23To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.24Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."25So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.26And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.27But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.28And Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
1So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.2And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."3Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.4I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."5Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.6They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,7his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.8Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,9and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron.14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.16The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.17The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob--sixteen persons.19The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.21And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob--fourteen persons in all.23The sons of Dan: Hushim.24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob--seven persons in all.26All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all.27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.28He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.29Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.30Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.32And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'33When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your occupation?'34you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
1So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen."2And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.3Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."4They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."5Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.6The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."7Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.11Then 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.12And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.13Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.15And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."16And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone."17So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.18And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's.21As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.22Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.23Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.24And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones."25And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."26So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.27Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.29And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,30but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."31And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.