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Genesis 47:3-12 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

3. Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" So they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers."

4. They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."

5. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

6. The land of Egypt is at your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."

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

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

9. So Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning."

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

11. So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.

12. Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food, according to their little ones.

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