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Genesis 47

31 verses · King James Version

  1. 1Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they in the land of Goshen.Compare translations of Genesis 47:1
  2. 2And he took some of his brethren, five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.Compare translations of Genesis 47:2
  3. 3And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants shepherds, both we, also our fathers.Compare translations of Genesis 47:3
  4. 4They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.Compare translations of Genesis 47:4
  5. 5And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:Compare translations of Genesis 47:5
  6. 6The land of Egypt before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.Compare translations of Genesis 47:6
  7. 7And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Compare translations of Genesis 47:7
  8. 8And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old thou?Compare translations of Genesis 47:8
  9. 9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Compare translations of Genesis 47:9
  10. 10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.Compare translations of Genesis 47:10
  11. 11And 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.Compare translations of Genesis 47:11
  12. 12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to families.Compare translations of Genesis 47:12
  13. 13And no bread in all the land; for the famine very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.Compare translations of Genesis 47:13
  14. 14And 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.Compare translations of Genesis 47:14
  15. 15And 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.Compare translations of Genesis 47:15
  16. 16And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.Compare translations of Genesis 47:16
  17. 17And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread 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.Compare translations of Genesis 47:17
  18. 18When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide 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:Compare translations of Genesis 47:18
  19. 19Wherefore 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 seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.Compare translations of Genesis 47:19
  20. 20And 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.Compare translations of Genesis 47:20
  21. 21And as for the people, he removed them to cities from end of the borders of Egypt even to the end thereof.Compare translations of Genesis 47:21
  22. 22Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.Compare translations of Genesis 47:22
  23. 23Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.Compare translations of Genesis 47:23
  24. 24And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth 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.Compare translations of Genesis 47:24
  25. 25And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.Compare translations of Genesis 47:25
  26. 26And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, Pharaoh should have the fifth except the land of the priests only, became not Pharaoh’s.Compare translations of Genesis 47:26
  27. 27And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.Compare translations of Genesis 47:27
  28. 28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.Compare translations of Genesis 47:28
  29. 29And 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:Compare translations of Genesis 47:29
  30. 30But 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.Compare translations of Genesis 47:30
  31. 31And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.Compare translations of Genesis 47:31