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Genesis 47:9-14 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

9. Jacob answered, “I have lived only a hundred and thirty years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

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.

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