1 So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: "My father and my brothers have arrived from the land of Canaan with their flocks and herds and all their belongings, and they are now in the region of Goshen."
2 He had chosen five of his brothers, and he presented them to Pharaoh.
3 Pharaoh asked his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They told Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, just as our fathers were."
4 They went on to say to Pharaoh, "We have come to live in this land as sojourners, because there is no pasture for your servants' flocks; the famine is so severe in the land of Canaan. So please allow your servants to settle in the region of Goshen."
5 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
6 The land of Egypt lies open before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in the region of Goshen. And if you know of any able men among them, make them overseers of my own livestock."
7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 Pharaoh asked Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
9 Jacob answered Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning come to a hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have the days of the years of my life been, and they have not reached the days of the years my fathers lived during their sojourning."
10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and left his presence.
11 Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property there, in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
12 Joseph also supplied his father, his brothers, and his father's whole household with food, according to the number of their little ones.
13 There was no food anywhere in the land, for the famine was extremely severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were wasting away because of the famine.
14 Joseph collected all the silver to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought the silver to Pharaoh's palace.
15 When the silver in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was used up, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, "Give us food! Why should we die in front of you? Our silver has run out."
16 "Bring your livestock, then," said Joseph. "Since your silver has run out, I will give you food in exchange for your livestock."
17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their flocks of sheep and goats, their herds of cattle, and their donkeys. Throughout that year he kept them supplied with food in exchange for all their livestock.
18 When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, "We cannot conceal from my lord that our silver is all spent and our herds of livestock belong to my lord. Nothing is left for my lord except our bodies and our land.
19 Why should we perish before your eyes, we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and so that the land will not become a wasteland."
20 So Joseph acquired all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, so hard did the famine press upon them. The land became Pharaoh's,
21 and as for the people, he moved them into the cities from one end of Egypt's territory to the other.
22 The only land he did not acquire was the land of the priests, because the priests received a fixed portion from Pharaoh and lived on the portion Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.
23 Joseph said to the people, "Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you; sow the land.
24 When the crops come in, give a fifth to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves, your households, and your little ones."
25 "You have kept us alive," they said. "May we find favor in my lord's eyes; we will be servants of Pharaoh."
26 So Joseph established it as a law for the land of Egypt, still in force today, that a fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
27 Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.
28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of Jacob's life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.
29 When the time of Israel's death drew near, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, "If I have found favor with you, put your hand under my thigh and show me steadfast love and faithfulness: do not, I beg you, bury me in Egypt.
30 When I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried." Joseph said, "I will do as you ask."
31 "Swear it to me," he said, and Joseph swore it to him. Then Israel bowed down at the head of the bed.