Chapter 47

1 And Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brethren, with their flocks and herds, and with all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

2 And of his brethren he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said to his brethren, 'What is your occupation?' And they said to Pharaoh, The shepherds of the sheep are thy servants, and we and our fathers.

4 And they said to Pharaoh, 'We have come to dwell in this land, because there is no pasture for the cattle of your servants, for there is a great famine in the land of Canaan; therefore let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Your father and your brothers have come to you;

6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best place of the earth shalt thou dwell thy father and thy brethren; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know that there are able men among them, make them overseers of my cattle.

7 And Joseph brought Jacob his father, and presented him to Pharaoh; And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, 'How many years have you lived?'

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of my sojourn are a hundred and thirty years; The days of my life are small and miserable, and have not reached the years of my fathers' lives in the days of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph settled his father and his brethren, and gave them a dominion in the land of Egypt, in the best part of the land, in the land of Ramesses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph supplied his father, and his brethren, and all his father's house, with bread, according to the needs of every family.

13 And there was no bread in all the land, for the famine was great, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were weary of famine.