1 Daarop het Josef gekom en aan Farao vertel en gesê: My vader en my broers en hulle kleinvee en beeste en alles wat hulle besit, het gekom uit die land Kana„n, en daar is hulle nou in die land Gosen.

2 En hy het uit die getal van sy broers vyf man saamgeneem en hulle aan Farao voorgestel.

3 Toe sê Farao aan sy broers: Wat is julle nering? En hulle antwoord Farao: U dienaars is herders van kleinvee, ons sowel as ons vaders.

4 Verder sê hulle vir Farao: Ons het gekom om as vreemdelinge in die land te vertoef, want daar is geen weiding vir die kleinvee van u dienaars nie, omdat die hongersnood in die land Kanaän swaar is. Laat u dienaars dan nou tog in die land Gosen woon.

5 Daarop het Farao met Josef gespreek en gesê: Jou vader en jou broers het na jou gekom.

6 Egipteland lê voor jou oop; laat jou vader en jou broers in die beste deel van die land woon; hulle kan in die land Gosen woon. En as jy weet dat daar onder hulle bekwame manne is, stel hulle dan aan as vee-opsigters oor my eiendom.

7 Toe bring Josef sy vader Jakob in en stel hom aan Farao voor. En Jakob het Farao gegroet met 'n seënwens.

8 Daarop sê Farao vir Jakob: Hoeveel is die dae van jou lewensjare?

9 En Jakob het Farao geantwoord: Die dae van die jare van my vreemdelingskap is honderd en dertig jaar. Min in getal en vol teëspoed was die dae van my lewensjare, en hulle het nie gehaal by die dae van die lewensjare van my vaders gedurende die dae van hulle vreemdelingskap nie.

10 Toe het Jakob Farao gegroet met 'n seënwens en van Farao af weggegaan.

11 En Josef het vir Jakob en sy broers woonplekke aangewys en aan hulle besitting in Egipteland gegee, in die beste deel van die land, in die landstreek Ra„mses, soos Farao beveel het.

12 En Josef het sy vader en sy broers en die hele huis van sy vader met brood onderhou ooreenkomstig die getal van die kinders.

13 En daar was in die hele land geen brood nie, want die hongersnood was baie swaar, sodat Egipteland en die land Kana„n uitgeput was weens die hongersnood.

14 En Josef het al die geld versamel wat in Egipteland en in die land Kana„n te vinde was, vir die koring wat hulle gekoop het, en Josef het die geld in die paleis van Farao gebring.

15 En toe die geld in Egipteland en in die land Kana„n op was, het al die Egiptenaars na Josef gekom en gesê: Gee vir ons brood! En: Waarom moet ons voor u oë sterwe, want die geld is gedaan?

16 En Josef antwoord: Gee julle vee, dan sal ek dit aan julle gee vir julle vee as die geld gedaan is.

17 Toe bring hulle hul vee na Josef, en Josef het aan hulle brood gegee vir die perde en die besitting aan kleinvee en beeste en vir die esels; en hy het hulle die jaar versorg met brood vir die waarde van al hulle besittings aan vee.

18 Toe die jaar om was, het hulle na hom gekom in die tweede jaar en vir hom gesê: Ons kan dit vir my heer nie wegsteek nie, maar die geld is op en die besitting aan vee is my heer s'n. Daar het niks vir my heer oorgebly nie as net ons lyf en ons grond.

19 Waarom moet ons voor u oë te gronde gaan, ons sowel as ons landerye? Koop ons en ons grond vir brood, dan sal ons met ons grond aan Farao diensbaar wees; en gee saadkoring, dat ons kan lewe en nie sterwe nie, en dat die grond nie woes word nie.

20 So het Josef dan al die grond van Egipte vir Farao opgekoop, want die Egiptenaars het elkeen sy stuk grond verkoop, omdat die hongersnood vir hulle te swaar was. So het die land dan Farao se eiendom geword.

21 En wat die volk betref -- hy het hulle laat verhuis na die stede, van die een end van die Egiptiese gebied na die ander end daarvan.

22 Net die grond van die priesters het hy nie gekoop nie; want die priesters het 'n vaste inkomste van Farao ontvang en van hulle vaste inkomste geëet wat Farao hulle toegestaan het. Daarom het hulle hul grond nie verkoop nie.

23 Toe sê Josef aan die volk: Kyk, ek het vandag julle en jul grond vir Farao gekoop: daar is saadkoring vir julle, dat julle die grond kan besaai.

24 En by die insameling moet julle 'n vyfde deel aan Farao afgee, en die ander vier dele sal julle eiendom wees, as saad vir die land en as voedsel vir julleself en die wat in julle huise is, en as voeding vir julle kinders.

25 En hulle antwoord: U het ons lewe gered. Laat ons guns mag vind in die oë van my heer, dan sal ons die dienaars van Farao wees.

26 En Josef het dit 'n wet gemaak tot vandag toe vir die saaigrond van Egipte -- die vyfde deel behoort aan Farao. Net die grond van die priesters alleen het nie die eiendom van Farao geword nie.

27 So het Israel dan in Egipteland gewoon, in die land Gosen; en hulle het vaste besittings daarin verwerf en vrugbaar geword en sterk vermeerder.

28 En Jakob het sewentien jaar in Egipteland gelewe, sodat die dae van Jakob, die jare van sy lewe, honderd sewe en veertig jaar was.

29 En toe die dae van Israel nader kom dat hy moes sterwe, het hy sy seun Josef laat roep en vir hom gesê: As ek nou guns in jou oë gevind het, sit dan tog jou hand onder my heup en bewys my liefde en trou -- begrawe my tog nie in Egipte nie.

30 Wanneer ek met my vaders ontslaap het, bring my dan weg uit Egipte en begrawe my in hulle graf. En hy antwoord: Ek sal handel ooreenkomstig u woord.

31 Toe sê hy: Sweer my dit tog. En hy het vir hom gesweer. Toe het Israel in aanbidding gebuig oor die koppenent van die bed.

1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers. 4 And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants’ flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 6 the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, 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. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph 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. 15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year. 18 And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord’s; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 19 wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh’s. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22 Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land. 23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh’s.

27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt; 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.