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If you cannot pay, he answered, bring your cattle here, and you shall have food in return for these. (Genesis 47, 16)
So they brought them and he bartered corn for horses and sheep and cattle and asses, feeding them the whole of that year and taking their beasts as the price. (Genesis 47, 17)
By the next year, they came to him and said, My lord, we must needs be open with thee; we have come to the end of our cattle, as well as our money; thou canst see for thyself that nothing is left us except our lives and our lands. (Genesis 47, 18)
Do not watch us starve; thou shalt have the disposal of our lands and of ourselves, making both of these the king’s property, and giving us seed-corn in return; if not, the land will become a wilderness for want of tillage. (Genesis 47, 19)
except the land which the king had assigned to the priests. These had a fixed allowance of food made to them from the royal store-houses, and there was no occasion for them to sell their lands. (Genesis 47, 22)
Joseph said to the people, You can see for yourselves now that Pharao is lord of your lives and lands; you shall have seed-corn to sow your fields with, (Genesis 47, 23)
and when harvest-time comes you shall give up a fifth of your crops to the king; the other four-fifths I will grant you for the next sowing, and to feed your households and your children. (Genesis 47, 24)
Our lives are in thy hand, they said; as long as we enjoy my lord’s favour, we will gladly be the king’s servants. (Genesis 47, 25)
All over Egypt, from that day to this, the payment of the fifth is a custom which has the force of law, except in the priests’ lands, which are bound by no such conditions. (Genesis 47, 26)
Jacob himself lived on seventeen years there, so that he reached altogether the age of a hundred and forty-seven. (Genesis 47, 28)
And when he saw the day of his death approaching, he sent for his son Joseph; Do me this favour, he said, put thy hand under my thigh, and swear, in love and loyalty, that thou wilt not bury me here in Egypt. (Genesis 47, 29)
Thy two sons were born to thee in Egypt, before my coming, but they shall be counted as sons of mine; Ephraim and Manasses shall take rank with Ruben and Simeon. (Genesis 48, 5)
