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 Ja Joosep läks ja teatas vaaraole ning ütles: „Mu isa ja vennad ja nende pudulojused ja veised ja kõik, mis neil oli, on tulnud Kaananimaalt, ja vaata, nad on Gooseni maakonnas!"
2 Ja ta võttis oma vendade hulgast viis meest ja tõi need vaarao ette.
3 Ja vaarao küsis tema vendadelt: „Mis teie amet on?" Ja nad vastasid vaaraole: „Su sulased on pudulojuste karjased, niihästi meie ise kui meie isad."
4 Ja nad ütlesid vaaraole: „Me oleme maale tulnud võõrastena elama, sest su sulaste karjale ei olnud sööta, kuna Kaananimaal on kange nälg. Luba siis nüüd oma sulaseid elada Gooseni maakonnas!"
5 Ja vaarao rääkis Joosepiga, öeldes: „Sinu isa ja vennad on su juurde tulnud.
6 Egiptusemaa on su ees lahti, pane oma isa ja vennad elama parimasse maakonda. Elagu nad Gooseni maakonnas, ja kui sa tunned nende hulgast tublisid mehi, siis pane need mu karja ülevaatajaiks."
7 Siis Joosep tõi sisse oma isa Jaakobi ja pani seisma vaarao ette; ja Jaakob õnnistas vaaraot.
8 Ja vaarao küsis Jaakobilt: „Kui palju sul eluaastaid on?"
9 Ja Jaakob vastas vaaraole: „Aastaid, mis ma võõrana olen elanud, on sada kolmkümmend aastat. Piskud ja kurjad on olnud mu eluaastad ja need ei ulatu mu isade eluaastateni nende võõrsiloleku ajal!"
10 Siis Jaakob õnnistas vaaraot ja läks ära vaarao juurest.
11 Ja Joosep paigutas oma isa ja vennad elama ja andis neile maaomandi Egiptusemaal kõige paremas maakonnas, Raamsese maakonnas, nagu vaarao oli käskinud.
12 Ja Joosep hoolitses leivaga oma isa ja vendade ja kogu isa pere eest, vastavalt nende väetite laste suudele.
13 Aga kogu maal ei olnud leiba, sest näljahäda oli väga kange, ja Egiptusemaa ja Kaananimaa olid näljast nõrkemas.
14 Ja Joosep kogus kokku kõik Egiptusemaal ja Kaananimaal leiduva raha vilja eest, mida osteti; ja Joosep viis raha vaarao kotta.
15 Kui raha oli lõppenud Egiptusemaalt ja Kaananimaalt, siis tulid kõik egiptlased Joosepi juurde, öeldes: „Anna meile leiba! Kas peame su silma ees surema, sellepärast et raha on otsas?"
16 Ja Joosep vastas: „Andke oma lojused ja mina annan teile lojuste eest, kui raha on otsas!"
17 Ja nad tõid oma lojused Joosepile ja Joosep andis neile leiba hobuste, pudulojuste karjade, veiste karjade ja eeslite eest; nõnda muretses ta neile sel aastal leiba kõigi nende lojuste eest.
18 Kui see aasta lõppes, siis järgmisel aastal nad tulid tema juurde ja ütlesid temale: „Me ei saa oma isandale salata, et raha on otsas ja lojuste karjad on meie isanda käes. Meil ei ole isanda ees muud üle jäänud kui ainult meie ihud ja põllumaa.
19 Kas peame su silma ees surema, niihästi me ise kui meie põllud? Osta meid ja meie põllud leiva eest, et me oma põldudega saaksime vaaraole orjadeks. Anna meile seemet, et jääksime elama ega sureks ja et põllud ei jääks tühjaks!"
20 Siis Joosep ostis vaaraole kogu Egiptuse põllumaa, sest egiptlased müüsid igaüks oma põllu, sellepärast, et nälg ahistas neid. Nõnda sai maa vaarao omaks.
21 Ja ta tegi rahva temale orjaks, ühest Egiptuse raja äärest teise ääreni.
22 Ainult preestrite põldusid ta ei ostnud, sest preestritel oli sissetulek vaaraolt ja nemad elatusid sissetulekust, mida vaarao neile andis; seepärast nemad ei müünud oma põldusid.
23 Ja Joosep ütles rahvale: „Vaata, ma olen nüüd ostnud teid ja teie põllud vaaraole. Näe, siin on teile seemet, külvake see põldudele!
24 Aga saagist peate andma viiendiku vaaraole, kuna neli osa jäägu teie kätte teile põlluseemneks, samuti toiduseks teile ja neile, kes teie peredes on, ja toiduseks teie väeteile lastele."
25 Ja nad vastasid: „Sina oled meid elus hoidnud! Kui leiame armu oma isanda silmis, siis jääme vaaraole orjadeks!"
26 Ja Joosep tegi selle seaduseks Egiptuse põllumaa kohta tänapäevani, et vaaraole saab viiendik; ainult preestrite põllud ei saanud vaarao omaks.
27 Ja Iisrael jäi elama Egiptusemaale Gooseni maakonda; nad jäid sinna paigale, olid viljakad ja neid sai väga palju.
28 Ja Jaakob elas Egiptusemaal seitseteist aastat, ja Jaakobi päevi, tema eluaastaid, oli sada nelikümmend seitse aastat.
29 Kui Iisraeli surma päev ligines, siis ta kutsus oma poja Joosepi ning ütles temale: „Kui ma nüüd olen su silmis armu leidnud, siis pane oma käsi mu puusa alla ja osuta mulle heldust ja truudust: ära mata mind Egiptusesse,
30 sest ma tahan magada oma vanemate juures. Vii mind Egiptusest ära ja mata nende hauda!" Ja ta vastas: „Ma teen su sõna järgi!"
31 Ja tema ütles: „Vannu mulle!" Ja ta vandus temale. Siis Iisrael kummardas voodi peatsi poole.