V. 1-3i. Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, saying, My father and my brethren, their flocks and their herds, and [all] that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took five of his [younger] brethren, and set them before Pharaoh. Then Pharaoh said to his brothers: What is your trade? They answered: Your servants are cattle herders, we and our bitters. And they said unto Pharaoh, We are come to dwell with you in the land: for thy servants have no pasture for their cattle, so hard doth the Theurung oppress the land of Canaan. Now therefore let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you; the land of Egypt is open to you; let them live in the best part of the land; let them live in the land of Goshen. And if thou knowest that there are men of valor among them, set them over my cattle. Joseph also brought in his father [Jacob], and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh asked Jacob, How old art thou? Jacob said [to Pharaoh], The time
The time of my pilgrimage is an hundred and thirty years; the time of my pilgrimage is few and evil; it does not equal the time of my fathers in their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from him. And Joseph made his father and his brethren dwell, and gave them a place in the land of Egypt, in the best place of the land, even in the land of Raemses, as Pharaoh had commanded. And he fed [his father and] his brethren, and all his father's house, as the young children, with bread. But there was no bread in all the land, for the famine was so severe that the land of Egypt and Canaan fainted from the famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in Egypt and Canaan for the corn which they bought, and he put all the money into Pharaoh's house. And when there was a lack of money in the land of Egypt and Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Provide us bread; why sufferest thou us to die before thee, because we are without money? And Joseph said, Bring forth your cattle, and I will give you cattle, because ye are without money. Then broke
They gave Joseph their livestock. And he gave them bread for their horses, and for their sheep, and for their oxen, and for their asses. So he fed them with bread for the year for all their cattle. When the year was over, they came to him the next year and said, "We will not hide from our master that not only the money but also all the livestock has gone to our master, and there is nothing left before our master but our bodies and our fields. Why hast thou caused both us and our land to die before thee? Take us and our land for bread, that we and our land may be a servant to Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the field be not desolate. So Joseph took all Egypt from Pharaoh. For the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was too great for them. And the land was Pharaoh's, and the people that went in and out of the cities thereof, from one place of Egypt to another. Except the field of the priests, which he took not: for Pharaoh commanded the priests that they should eat the things which he gave them. Therefore they were not allowed to sell their field. Then said Joseph unto the people, Behold, I have taken you this day, and have given your field unto Pharaoh: behold, ye have seed, and sow the field; and of the corn ye shall eat the fivefold.
Give four parts to Pharaoh, for sowing the field, for your food, and for your house and children. They said: Let us only live, and find grace in the sight of thee our Lord; we will gladly be Pharaoh's servants. So Joseph made them a law unto this day, over the field of Egypt, to give the fifth to Pharaoh, except the priests' field, which was not Pharaoh's own. So Israel dwelt in Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and possessed it, and grew and multiplied greatly. And Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt: and all his days were an hundred and seven and forty years. And it came to pass, when the time was come for Israel to die, that he called Joseph his son, and said unto him, If I have found grace in thy sight, put thine hand under my thigh, that thou mayest do mercy and faithfulness unto me, and bury me not in Egypt: but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt bring me forth out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. He said: I will do as thou hast said. And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. Then Israel knelt down 1) against the bed at his head.
1) Marginal gloss: knelt. The all books in Greek and Latin have here thus: And he worshipped at the head of his scepter, as the epistle to the Hebrews reports at the 11th [v. 21.], as if Jacob had worshipped the scepter of Joseph; but in Hebrew it is as it is here.