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Why should we die while you look on, ourselves and our land? So buy us and our land for bread; we shall be in bondage to you and Pharaoh. Give us grain that we may live and not die and our land remain desolate." (Genesis 47, 19)
So it was that Joseph acquired all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; all the Egyptians sold their fields, so cruelly hard-pressed were they by the famine. Pharaoh became owner of the land (Genesis 47, 20)
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other. (Genesis 47, 21)
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because by a decree of Pharaoh they lived on what had been given to them by Pharaoh. For that reason they did not sell the land that belonged to them. (Genesis 47, 22)
Then Joseph said to the people, "Now that I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh, here is seed for you to sow the land. (Genesis 47, 23)
At harvest time you will give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths will be yours for seed for sowing, for food for yourselves and your families." (Genesis 47, 24)
They said, "You have saved our lives. If it please my lord, we shall be Pharaoh's serfs." (Genesis 47, 25)
So Joseph introduced a statute that remains to this day, whereby a fifth of the produce goes to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's. (Genesis 47, 26)
So Israel lived in Egypt in the land of Goshen. They became owners of this land; they had many children and greatly increased in number. (Genesis 47, 27)
Jacob lived for one hundred and forty-seven years, seventeen of them in the land of Egypt. (Genesis 47, 28)
When his life was drawing to a close he called for his son Joseph and said to him, "If you wish to be faithful and kind to me, place your hand under my thigh and promise me that you will not bury me in Egypt! (Genesis 47, 29)
But when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb." Joseph said, "I will do as you say." (Genesis 47, 30)
