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.
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.”
17. From then on, they brought him their horses and donkeys and their sheep and goats in exchange for grain.Within a year Joseph had collected every animal in Egypt.
18. Then the people came to him and said:Sir, there's no way we can hide the truth from you. We are broke, and we don't have any more animals. We have nothing left except ourselves and our land.
19. Don't let us starve and our land be ruined. If you'll give us grain to eat and seed to plant, we'll sell ourselves and our land to the king. We'll become his slaves.