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And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of
Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
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And Joseph
nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to
their
families.
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And
there was
no bread in all the land; for the famine
was
very sore, so that the land of Egypt
and
all
the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
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And Joseph gathered up all the money
that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and
Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
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And when money failed in the land of Egypt,
and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why
should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
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And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I
will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
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And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph
gave them bread
in exchange
for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for
the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
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When that year was ended,
they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide
it
from my lord, how that
our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my
lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
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Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our
land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give
us
seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
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And Joseph bought all the
land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed
over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
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And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
one
end of the borders of Egypt even to the
other
end thereof.
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Only the land of the priests bought
he not; for the priests had a portion
assigned them
of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which
Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
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Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold,
I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo,
here is
seed for you, and ye shall sow
the land.
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And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth
part
unto Pharaoh,
and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your
households, and for food for your little ones.
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And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us
find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
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And Joseph made it a law
over the land of Egypt unto this day,
that
Pharaoh should have the fifth
part;
except the land of the
priests only,
which
became not Pharaoh’s.
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And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions
therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
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And the time drew nigh
that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in
thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me
not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
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But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt,
and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
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And he said, Swear
unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
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