Genesis 47

¹Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen.

²Five men also the last of his brethren, he presented before the king:

³And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.

⁴We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for the flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen.

⁵The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.

⁶The land of Egypt is before thee: make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.

⁷After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and presented him before him: and he blessed him.

⁸And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life?

⁹He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

¹⁰And blessing the king, he went out.

¹¹But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded.

¹²And he nourished them, and all his father’s house, allowing food to every one.