Genesis 47:1 Joseph went into Pharaoh and said, My father and my brothers and all their families are here. They have all their animals and everything they own from the land of Canaan with them. They are now in the land of Goshen
Genesis 47:2 Joseph chose five of his brothers to be with him before the Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:3 Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brethren: What kind of work do you do? Joseph’s brethren said: We are shepherds, and our fathers before us were also shepherds.
Genesis 47:4 Joseph’s brethren asked Pharaoh: May we stay in your land as strangers? The famine is very bad in Canaan. There are no fields left with grass for our animals, so we have come to live in this land. We ask you to please let us live in Goshen.
Genesis 47:5 Pharaoh said to Joseph: Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Genesis 47:6 They may stay anywhere in Egypt. Choose the best part of the land for your father and your brethren. Your father and your brethren may stay in Goshen. If your brethren are good shepherds, you must tell them also to look after my sheep.
Genesis 47:7 Later Joseph brought his father Jacob to meet Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:8 Pharaoh asked Jacob: How old are you?
Genesis 47:9 Jacob said to Pharaoh: I have had a short life with many troubles. I am only 130 years old. My father and his ancestors lived to be much older than I am.
Genesis 47:10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and left from his meeting with Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:11 Joseph did what Pharaoh said and gave his father and brothers land in Egypt. It was the best land in Egypt, in the eastern part of the country, around Rameses
Genesis 47:12 Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the needs of their children.
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