Genesis 47

1Then 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.”Cross-references: Gen 45:10 · Gen 45:16 · Gen 46:28 · Gen 46:31 · Gen 46:34 · Ex 8:22 · +2 more

2From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.Cross-references: Acts 7:13 · 2Cor 4:14 · Col 1:28 · Jude 1:24

3Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”Cross-references: Gen 4:2 · Gen 46:33 · Amos 7:14 · Jonah 1:8 · 2Thess 3:10

4They 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.”Cross-references: Gen 12:10 · Gen 15:13 · Gen 43:1 · Gen 46:34 · Deut 26:5 · Ps 105:23 · +3 more

5Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

6The 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 among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”Cross-references: Gen 13:9 · Gen 20:15 · Gen 34:10 · Gen 45:18 · Gen 47:4 · Gen 47:11 · +12 more

7Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Cross-references: Gen 35:27 · Gen 47:10 · Ex 12:32 · Num 6:23 · Josh 14:13 · 1Sam 2:20 · +8 more

8Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”Cross-references: Gen 5:27 · Gen 11:11 · Gen 11:24 · Gen 25:7 · Gen 35:28 · Gen 47:28 · +21 more

10Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.Cross-references: Gen 14:19 · Gen 47:7 · Num 6:23 · Deut 33:1 · Ruth 2:4 · 2Sam 8:10 · +4 more

11Joseph 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.Cross-references: Gen 47:6 · Ex 1:11 · Ex 12:37 · John 10:10 · John 10:28 · John 14:2 · +3 more

12Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.Cross-references: Gen 45:11 · Gen 47:1 · Gen 47:21 · Gen 47:24 · Ex 20:12 · Ruth 4:15 · +6 more

13There 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.Cross-references: Gen 41:30 · 1Ki 18:5 · Jer 9:12 · Jer 14:1 · Lam 2:19 · Lam 4:9 · +2 more

14Joseph 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.Cross-references: Gen 41:56 · Luke 16:1 · Luke 16:10 · 1Cor 4:2 · 1Pet 4:10

15When 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.”Cross-references: Gen 47:18 · Gen 47:24 · Judg 8:5 · Judg 8:8 · 1Sam 21:3 · 1Sam 25:8 · +3 more

16Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”Cross-references: Prov 12:17 · Dan 6:5 · 1Cor 10:32 · Phil 4:8 · Col 4:5

17They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.Cross-references: Ex 9:3 · 1Ki 10:28 · Job 2:4 · Isa 31:1 · Matt 6:24

18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.Cross-references: 2Ki 6:26 · Jer 38:9

19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”Cross-references: Neh 5:2 · Job 2:4 · Lam 1:11 · Lam 5:6 · Lam 5:9 · Matt 16:26 · +1 more

20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

21As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.Cross-references: Gen 41:48

22Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.Cross-references: Gen 14:18 · Gen 41:45 · Gen 41:50 · Deut 12:19 · Josh 21:1 · 2Sam 8:18 · +7 more

23Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.Cross-references: Gen 41:27 · Gen 45:6 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 107:36 · Ps 112:5 · Prov 11:26 · +7 more

24It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”Cross-references: Gen 41:34 · Gen 47:25 · Lev 27:32 · 1Sam 8:15 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 112:5

25They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”Cross-references: Gen 6:19 · Gen 18:3 · Gen 33:15 · Gen 41:45 · Gen 45:6 · Gen 50:20 · +2 more

26Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.Cross-references: Gen 47:22 · Ezek 7:24

27Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.Cross-references: Gen 8:7 · Gen 8:9 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 17:6 · Gen 26:4 · Gen 28:14 · +10 more

28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.Cross-references: Gen 37:2 · Gen 47:8 · Ps 90:10 · Ps 90:12 · Ps 119:84

29The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 24:2 · Gen 24:49 · Gen 47:9 · Gen 50:24 · Deut 31:14 · +13 more

30but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”Cross-references: Gen 23:19 · Gen 25:9 · Gen 49:29 · Gen 50:5 · Gen 50:25 · 2Sam 19:37 · +4 more

31Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.Cross-references: Gen 21:23 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 24:26 · Gen 47:29 · Gen 48:1 · 1Ki 1:47 · +1 more