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 to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.
2 And he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.
4 And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle.
6 And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.
7 Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.
8 And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?
9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
10 And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him.
11 And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.
12 And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.
13 Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.
14 And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.
15 And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.
16 And Joseph said, Give me your cattle; I will give you grain in exchange for your cattle if your money is all gone.
17 So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.
18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;
19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.
20 So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.
21 And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.
22 Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.
23 Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.
24 And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.
25 And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
26 Then Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth part; only the land of the priests did not become his.
27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.
28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
29 And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;
30 But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so.
31 And he said, Take an oath to me; and he took an oath to him: and Israel gave worship on the bed's head.