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    Genesis 47

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    The famine ends with the Egyptians selling Joseph their money, livestock, land, and liberty—and thanking him for saving their lives.

    A settlement in the best part of the landvv. 1–12

    Joseph brings five brothers before Pharaoh, who asks the perfectly practical question: “What is your occupation?” Shepherds, they say, as were their fathers. Pharaoh grants Goshen, offers the best part of the land, and even suggests that talented men might oversee his livestock. Then Jacob appears, blesses Pharaoh twice, and calls 130 years of travel “few and hard”—a remarkably modest account, since the chapter later gives his age as 147. Joseph settles the family in Rameses and supplies them with food.

    The price of breadvv. 13–26

    The famine leaves Egypt and Canaan without food, and Joseph gathers the money paid for grain into Pharaoh’s palace. When the money has gone, the Egyptians bring their livestock; when the livestock has gone, they offer their bodies and land. Joseph acquires the land for Pharaoh and reduces the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other. Yet when he gives them seed and fixes the harvest share at one fifth for Pharaoh, they say, “You have saved our lives,” and agree to be Pharaoh’s servants. The priests’ land, intriguingly exempt throughout, remains theirs.

    An oath at the head of the bedvv. 27–31

    The Israelites prosper in Goshen while Jacob lives another seventeen years. Near death, Israel calls Joseph and asks not to be buried in Egypt, but carried out to lie with his fathers. The requested oath involves Joseph putting his hand under Jacob’s thigh; the chapter gives the instruction and no reason for the particular gesture. Joseph swears, and Israel bows in worship at the head of his bed.

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    1. Gen 47:1So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

    2. Gen 47:2And he chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.

    3. Gen 47:3“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”

    4. Gen 47:4Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”

    5. Gen 47:5Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,

    6. Gen 47:6the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

    7. Gen 47:7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

    8. Gen 47:8“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.

    9. Gen 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

    10. Gen 47:10Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.

    11. Gen 47:11So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

    12. Gen 47:12Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

    13. Gen 47:13There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

    14. Gen 47:14Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.

    15. Gen 47:15When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”

    16. Gen 47:16“Then bring me your livestock,” said Joseph. “Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock.”

    17. Gen 47:17So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. Throughout that year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.

    18. Gen 47:18When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

    19. Gen 47:19Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

    20. Gen 47:20So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

    21. Gen 47:21and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.

    22. Gen 47:22However, he did not acquire the priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.

    23. Gen 47:23Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

    24. Gen 47:24At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

    25. Gen 47:25“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

    26. Gen 47:26So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.

    27. Gen 47:27Now the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.

    28. Gen 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

    29. Gen 47:29When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

    30. Gen 47:30but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”

    31. Gen 47:31“Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.

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    • 27Genesis 46:3“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
    • 4Genesis 46:34you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
    • 9Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
    • 9Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
    • 10Genesis 47:7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
    • 27Exodus 1:7but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
    • 4Deuteronomy 26:5and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
    • 4Genesis 15:13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
    • 7Genesis 47:10Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.
    • 9Genesis 35:28And Isaac lived 180 years.
    • 11Genesis 47:6the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
    • 11Exodus 1:11So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
    • 11Exodus 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
    • 14Genesis 41:56When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
    • 22Ezra 7:24And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
    • 24Genesis 41:34Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

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