1 And Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brethren, and their sheep and their cattle, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2 And he took from the whole number of his brethren, five men, and set them before Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said to his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.
4 And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for the sheep that thy servants have, for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.
6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land settle thy father and thy brethren: let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if thou knowest men of activity among them, then set them as overseers of cattle over what I have.
7 And Joseph brought Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from Pharaoh.
11 And Joseph settled 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 maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.
13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through 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 money came to an end in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread! for why should we die before thee? for {our} money is all gone.
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle, if {your} money be all gone.
17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread for horses, and for flocks of sheep, and for herds of cattle, and for asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year.
18 And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide {it} from my lord that since {our} money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land.
19 Why 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 bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the soil of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh's.
21 And as for the people, he removed them into the cities, from {one} end of the borders of Egypt even to the {other} end of it.
22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land.
23 And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and sow the land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth to Pharaoh, and the 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 us alive. Let us find favour in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.
26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, {that} the fifth should be for Pharaoh, except the land of the priests: theirs alone did not become Pharaoh's.
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they had possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.
29 And the days of Israel approached that he should die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, 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 shall lie with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word.
31 And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel worshipped on the bed's head.
1 约瑟进去禀告法老， 说： "我的父亲和兄弟们， 带着他们的牛羊和他们所有的一切， 都从迦南地来了， 现在就在歌珊地。"
2 约瑟从他所有的兄弟当中， 挑选了五个人， 把他们带到法老面前。
3 法老问约瑟的兄弟们说： "你们是作什么的？"他们回答法老： "仆人们是牧羊人， 我们和我们的祖先都是一样。"
4 他们又对法老说： "我们来是要在这地寄居， 因为迦南地的饥荒严重， 你仆人们的羊群没有草吃， 所以， 现在求你容许你仆人住在歌珊地。"
5 法老对约瑟说： "你的父亲和兄弟们到你这里来了；
6 埃及地都在你面前， 你只管叫你的父亲和兄弟们住在这地最好的地方， 他们可以住在歌珊地。你如果知道他们中间有能干的人， 可以派他们看管我的牲畜。"
7 约瑟把他父亲雅各带到法老面前， 雅各就给法老祝福。
8 法老问雅各： "你有多大年纪了？"
9 雅各回答法老： "我寄居在世的年日是一百三十岁。我一生的年日又少又苦， 不及我祖先寄居在世的年日。"
10 雅各又给法老祝福， 然后离开法老出去了。
11 约瑟照着法老的吩咐安置他的父亲和兄弟们， 把兰塞地， 就是埃及地最好的地方， 给他们作产业。
12 约瑟照着孩子的数目， 用粮食供养他的父亲、兄弟们， 以及父亲的家人。
13 那时， 遍地都没有粮食， 因为饥荒非常严重。埃及地和迦南地的人， 因为饥荒的缘故都饿昏了。
14 约瑟收集了埃及地和迦南地所有的银子， 就是众人买粮的银子； 约瑟就把那些银子交到法老的王宫去。
15 埃及地和迦南地的银子都用尽了， 埃及众人就来到约瑟那里， 说： "银子已用完了。求你给我们粮食吧， 我们为什么要饿死在你面前呢？"
16 约瑟回答： "如果银子用完了， 可以把你们的牲畜给我， 我就把粮食给你们， 交换你们的牲畜。"
17 于是， 他们把牲畜带到约瑟那里， 约瑟就把粮食给他们， 交换他们的马匹、羊群、牛群和驴。那一年， 约瑟就用粮食交换他们所有的牲畜， 来养活他们。
18 那一年过后， 第二年他们又来到约瑟那里， 对他说： "我们不向我主隐瞒， 我们的银子都用尽了， 牲畜也归了我主； 在我主面前， 除了我们的身体和田地以外， 什么也没有剩下了。
19 为什么我们和我们的田地要在你面前消灭呢？求你用粮食买我们和我们的田地， 我们和田地就必为法老效劳了。又求你给我们谷种， 使我们可以活着， 不至死亡， 田地也不至荒芜。"
20 于是， 约瑟为法老买了埃及所有的田地， 因为埃及人遭遇了严重的饥荒， 各人都卖了自己的田地。这样， 那地就都归法老所有。
21 至于人民， 约瑟把他们迁到城市里去（"约瑟把他们迁到城市里去"有古卷及古译本作"使他们成了奴仆"）， 从埃及境内的一端， 直到另一端。
22 只有祭司的田地， 约瑟没有买， 因为祭司有从法老所得的粮饷； 他们可以吃法老所给的粮饷， 所以没有卖自己的田地。
23 约瑟对人民说： "看哪， 我今日为法老买了你们和你们的田地。这里有谷种给你们， 你们可以种地。
24 到了收割的时候， 你们要把五分之一给法老， 其余四分可以归你们自己， 作田里的种子， 又作你们以及你们家人和孩子的食物。"
25 他们说： "你救了我们； 愿我们在我主面前得蒙喜悦， 我们就作法老的奴仆。"
26 于是， 约瑟为埃及的田地立了一个法例， 直到今日还有效， 就是五分之一归给法老； 只有祭司的田地不归给法老。
27 以色列人住在埃及国的歌珊地， 他们在那里置业繁殖， 人数非常众多。
28 雅各在埃及地住了十七年； 他一生的寿数是一百四十七岁。
29 以色列的死期快到了， 就把他儿子约瑟叫了来， 对他说： "如果我在你面前蒙你喜悦， 请你把手放在我的大腿底下起誓， 要以慈爱和诚实对待我， 不要把我埋葬在埃及。
30 我与我的祖先同睡的时候， 你要把我从埃及带出去， 埋葬在他们的墓地里。"约瑟说： "我必照着你的话去作。"
31 雅各说： "你要向我起誓。"约瑟就向他起了誓， 于是以色列靠着床头（"靠着床头"有古译本作"倚着杖头"﹝参来11:21﹞）敬拜 神。