Genesis 47

¹Then came Ioseph and tolde Pharaoh, and sayde, My father, and my brethren, and their sheepe, and their cattell, and all that they haue, are come out of the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

²And Ioseph tooke part of his brethren, euen fiue men, and presented them vnto Pharaoh.

³Then Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy seruants are shepheards, both we and our fathers.

⁴They sayde moreouer vnto Pharaoh, For to soiourne in ye lande are we come: for thy seruants haue no pasture for their sheepe, so sore is ye famine in the lande of Canaan. Nowe therefore, we pray thee, let thy seruants dwel in the land of Goshen.

⁵Then spake Pharaoh to Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.

⁶The lande of Egypt is before thee: in the best place of the land make thy father and thy brethren dwel: let the dwel in the land of Goshen: and if thou knowest that there be men of actiuitie among them, make them rulers ouer my cattell.

⁷Ioseph also brought Iaakob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Iaakob saluted Pharaoh.

⁸Then Pharaoh sayde vnto Iaakob, Howe olde art thou?

⁹And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth and thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.

¹⁰And Iaakob tooke leaue of Pharaoh, and departed from the presence of Pharaoh.

¹¹And Ioseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gaue them possession in the lande of Egypt, in the best of the land, euen in the lande of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.