1. Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
2. From amongst his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
3. Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?”They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”
4. They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners 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 dwell in the land of Goshen.”
5. Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
6. The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men amongst them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
7. Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8. Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
9. Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
10. Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
11. Joseph placed 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 commanded.
12. Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.
13. There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14. Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15. When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”