Genesis 47 · Parashot Vayigash–Vayechi

Then Yosef came and told Par῾o, 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 Kena῾an; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

And he took some of his brothers, five men, and presented them to Par῾o.

And Par῾o said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Par῾o, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

They said moreover to Par῾o, To sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is severe in the land of Kena῾an: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

And Par῾o spoke to Yosef, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee:

the land of Miżrayim is 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 knowst any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

And Yosef brought in Ya῾aqov his father, and set him before Par῾o: and Ya῾aqov blessed Par῾o.

And Par῾o said to Ya῾aqov, How old art thou?

And Ya῾aqov said to Par῾o, The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.

And Ya῾aqov blessed Par῾o, and went out from before Par῾o.

And Yosef provided abodes for his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Miżrayim, in the best of the land, in the land of Ra῾meses, as Par῾o had commanded.

And Yosef nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their little ones.

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Miżrayim and all the land of Kena῾an languished by reason of the famine.

And Yosef gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Miżrayim, and in the land of Kena῾an, for the corn which they bought: and Yosef brought the money to Par῾o’s house.

And when money failed in the land of Miżrayim, and in the land of Kena῾an, all Miżrayim came to Yosef, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money fails.

And Yosef said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

And they brought their cattle to Yosef; and Yosef gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.

When that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

why shall we die before thy eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Par῾o: and give us grain, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

And Yosef bought all the land of Miżrayim for Par῾o; for Miżrayim sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Par῾o’s.

And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the borders of Miżrayim, to the other end.

Only the land of the priests he bought not; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Par῾o, and did eat their portion which Par῾o gave them: therefore they sold not their lands.

Then Yosef said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Par῾o: lo, here is grain for you, and you shall sow the land.

And it shall come to pass at harvest times, that you shall give the fifth part to Par῾o, 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.

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Par῾o’s servants.

And Yosef made it a law over the land of Miżrayim to this day, that Par῾o should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Par῾o’s.

And Yisra᾽el dwelt in the land of Miżrayim in the country of Goshen; and they took possession of it, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

And Ya῾aqov lived in the land of Miżrayim seventeen years: so the whole age of Ya῾aqov was a hundred and forty seven years.

And the time drew near for Yisra᾽el to die: and he called his son Yosef, and said to him, If now I have found favour 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 Miżrayim:

but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Miżrayim, and bury me in their buryingplace.

And he said, I will do as thou hast said. And he said, Swear to me. And he swore to him. And Yisra᾽el bowed himself upon the bed’s head.