7. After this, Joseph brought in his father to the king, and he stood him in his sight. He blessed him,
8. and he questioned him: "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
9. He responded, "The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers."
10. And blessing the king, he went outside.
11. Truly, Joseph gave his father and brothers a possession in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed.
12. And he fed them, along with all his father's house, providing portions of food to each one.
13. For in the whole world there was a lack of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, most of all Egypt and Canaan,
14. from which he gathered together all the money for the grain that they bought, and he took it into the treasury of the king.
15. And when the buyers had run out of money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: "Give us bread. Why should we die in your sight, lacking money?"
16. And he responded to them: "Bring me your cattle, and I will give food to you in exchange for them, if you do not have money."
17. And when they had brought them, he gave them food for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and donkeys. And he sustained them in that year in exchange for their cattle.
18. Likewise, they came the second year, and they said to him: "We will not conceal from our lord that our money is gone; likewise our cattle are gone. Neither are you unaware that we have nothing left but our bodies and our land.
19. Therefore, why should you watch us die? Both we and our land will be yours. Buy us into royal servitude, but provide seed, lest by the dying off of cultivators the land be reduced to a wilderness."
20. Therefore, Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, each one selling his possessions because of the magnitude of the famine. And he subjected it to Pharaoh,
21. along with all of its people, from the newest borders of Egypt, even to its furthest limits,
22. except the land of the priests, which had been delivered to them by the king. To these also a portion of food was supplied out of the public storehouses, and, for this reason, they were not compelled to sell their possessions.
23. Therefore, Joseph said to the people: "So, as you discern, both you and your lands are possessed by Pharaoh; take seed and sow the fields,