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The land of Egypt is before you; let your father and brothers settle in the best part; let them settle in Goshen, and if among them there are capable men, put them in charge of my cattle." (Genesis 47, 6)
So Joseph had his father and brothers settled, giving them property in the best part of Egypt, in the land of Rameses as Pharaoh had commanded. (Genesis 47, 11)
Now so severe was the famine that no bread was to be had in all the land. Both Egypt and Canaan were exhausted because of the famine. (Genesis 47, 13)
The following year they came to him again and said, "We will not hide from our lord that all our money is gone and that our cattle now belong to you. All that is left to us are our persons and our land. (Genesis 47, 18)
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)
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)
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)
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)
