And Joseph came and reported to Pharaoh, saying, My father and my brothers, and their cattle and their oxen and all that is theirs, have come out of the land of Chanaan; and behold, they are in the land of Gesem.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph's brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds of sheep, both we and our fathers.
And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, since the famine has prevailed in the land of Chanaan; now therefore we your servants will dwell in the land of Gesem.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them dwell in the land of Gesem; and if you know that there are capable men among them, appoint them rulers over my livestock. And Jacob and his sons came into Egypt to Joseph; and Pharaoh king of Egypt heard of it, and Pharaoh said to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you.
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my life, in which I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, the days they sojourned.
And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best land, in the land of Ramesse, as Pharaoh had commanded.
And there was no grain in all the land, for the famine prevailed exceedingly; and the land of Egypt and the land of Chanaan failed because of the famine.
And Joseph gathered all the silver found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan, for the grain that they were buying, and he measured out grain to them; and Joseph brought all the silver into the house of Pharaoh.
And all the silver failed out of the land of Egypt and out of the land of Chanaan; and all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread; why should we die before you? For our silver has failed.
And they brought their cattle to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses and for the sheep and for the oxen and for the donkeys; and he nourished them with bread in exchange for all their cattle in that year.
And that year came to an end, and they came to him in the second year and said to him, Lest we be destroyed from before our lord; for if the silver has failed, and the possessions and the cattle have gone to you, our lord, then nothing is left for us before our lord but our own bodies and our land.
So that we may not die before you, and the land not be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give seed, that we may sow and live and not die, and the land not be made desolate.
And Joseph acquired all the land of the Egyptians for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold their land to Pharaoh, because the famine prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh's.
Only the land of the priests he did not acquire; for Pharaoh gave a gift to the priests as an allowance, and they ate the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
And it shall be that of its produce you shall give the fifth part to Pharaoh, and the four parts shall be your own, for seed for the land and for food for you and for all who are in your houses.
And Joseph made it a statute for them, until this day, upon the land of Egypt, to give a fifth to Pharaoh; only the land of the priests alone was not Pharaoh's.
And the days of Israel drew near for him to die, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, If I have found favor before you, put your hand under my thigh, and do mercy and truth to me, not to bury me in Egypt;