10. Then Jacob gave the king his blessing once again and left.
11. Joseph obeyed the king's orders and gave his father and brothers some of the best land in Egypt near the city of Rameses.
12. Joseph also provided food for their families.
13. The famine was bad everywhere in Egypt and Canaan, and the people were suffering terribly.
14. So Joseph sold them the grain that had been stored up, and he put the money in the king's treasury.
15. But when everyone had run out of money, the Egyptians came to Joseph and demanded, “Give us more grain! If you don't, we'll soon be dead, because our money's all gone.”
16. “If you don't have any money,” Joseph answered, “give me your animals, and I'll let you have some grain.”