Gênesis 47

1 Then 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." 2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. 3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?"

They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers." 4 They 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."

5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The 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."

7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How old are you?"

9 Jacob 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." 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

11 Joseph 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. 12 Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

13 There 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. 14 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 When 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."

16 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone."

17 They 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. 18 When 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. 19 Why 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."

20 So 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. 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. 22 Only 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. 23 Then 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. 24 It 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."

25 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants."

26 Joseph 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.

27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. 29 The 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, 30 but 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."

31 Israel said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

1 Nā, ka haere a Hōhepa, ka kōrero ki a Parao, ka mea, "Kua tae mai tōku pāpā me ōku tuākana, me ā rātou kāhui, ā rātou kau, ā rātou mea katoa, i te whenua o Kanaana; nā, kei te whenua rātou o Kohena." 2 Nā, ka tango ia i ētahi o ōna tuākana, tokorima, ā, whakatūria ana rātou e ia ki te aroaro o Parao.

3 Ā, ka mea a Parao ki ōna tuākana, "He aha tā koutou nā mahi?"

Ā, ka mea rātou ki a Parao, "He hēpara āu pononga, mātou me ō mātou mātua." 4 I mea anō rātou ki a Parao, "He noho ki tēnei whenua i haere mai ai mātou; nō te mea kāhore he kai mā ngā hipi a āu pononga; he nui hoki te matekai o te whenua o Kanaana; koia rā kia noho āu pononga ki te whenua o Kohena."

5 Nā, ka kōrero a Parao ki a Hōhepa, ka mea, "Kua tae mai nei tōu pāpā me ōu tuākana ki a koe. 6 Kei tōu aroaro te whenua o Īhipa; whakanohoia e koe tōu pāpā me ōu tuākana ki te wāhi pai o te whenua; kia noho rātou ki te whenua o Kohena. Ki te mea hoki e mōhiotia ana e koe ētahi tāngata pakari i roto i a rātou, meinga rātou hei rangatira mō āku kararehe."

7 Nā, ka kawea mai a Hākopa, tōna pāpā, e Hōhepa, ka whakatūria ki te aroaro o Parao; ā, ka manaaki a Hākopa i a Parao. 8 Ā, ka mea a Parao ki a Hākopa, "Ka hia ōu tau?"

9 Ka mea a Hākopa ki a Parao, "Ka kotahi rau e toru tekau tau ngā rā o ngā tau o tōku noho manene. He torutoru, ā, he kino ngā rā o ngā tau o tōku ora, kīhai anō hoki i rite ki ngā rā o ngā tau o te ora o ōku mātua, i ngā rā i noho manene ai rātou." 10 Nā, ka manaaki a Hākopa i a Parao, ā, puta atu ana i te aroaro o Parao.

11 Nā, ka whakanohoia e Hōhepa tōna pāpā me ōna tuākana, ā, hoatu ana e ia ki a rātou he kāinga i te whenua o Īhipa, i te wāhi pai rawa o te whenua, i te whenua o Ramehehe, pērā me tā Parao i whakahau ai. 12 Nā, ka atawhai a Hōhepa i tōna pāpā, rātou ko ōna tuākana, ko te whare katoa anō hoki o tōna pāpā ki te taro, he mea whakarite tonu ki ō rātou hapū.

Te Matekai

13 Ā, kāhore he taro o te whenua katoa; he nui rawa hoki te matekai; ā, hemo noa iho te whenua o Īhipa i te matekai, me te whenua hoki o Kanaana. 14 Ā, kohia ana e Hōhepa te moni katoa i kitea ki te whenua o Īhipa, ki te whenua hoki o Kanaana, mō te wīti i hokona e rātou; ā, kawea ana e Hōhepa te moni ki te whare o Parao. 15 Ā, nō te potonga o te moni o te whenua o Īhipa, o te whenua hoki o Kanaana, nā, ka haere ngā Īhipiana katoa ki a Hōhepa, ka mea, "Hōmai he taro ki a mātou; kia mate hoki mātou ki tōu aroaro hei aha? Kua poto nei hoki te moni."

16 Nā, ka mea a Hōhepa, "Hōmai ā koutou kararehe; ā, ka hoatu e ahau hei utu mō ā koutou kararehe, i te mea kua poto te moni." 17 Nā, ka kawea mai e rātou ā rātou kararehe ki a Hōhepa; ā, hoatu ana e Hōhepa he taro ki a rātou hei utu mō ngā hōiho, mō ngā kāhui hipi, mō ngā kāhui kau, mō ngā kāihe. Ā, whāngaia ana rātou e ia ki te taro i taua tau, hei utu mō ā rātou kararehe katoa.

18 Ā, nō te takanga o taua tau, ka haere mai rātou ki a ia i te rua o ngā tau, ka mea ki a ia, "E kore e hunā e mātou i tōku ariki, kua poto te moni; kei tōku ariki hoki ā mātou kāhui kararehe; kāhore he mea e toe ana hei tirohanga mā tōku ariki, ko ō mātou tinana anake, me ō mātou oneone. 19 Kia mate mātou ki tōu aroaro hei aha? Mātou tahi hoki me tō mātou oneone? Hokona mātou me tō mātou oneone ki te taro, ā, ka riro mātou me tō mātou oneone hei pononga mā Parao. Hōmai anō hoki he purapura, ā, ka ora mātou, ā, e kore e mate, e kore anō hoki e ururuatia te whenua."

20 Nā, ka hokona e Hōhepa te oneone katoa o Īhipa mō Parao. I hokona hoki e ngā Īhipiana tāna māra, tāna māra; he pēhi rawa hoki nā te matekai i a rātou. Ā, riro ana te whenua i a Parao; 21 tēnā ko ngā tāngata, i whakawhitiwhitia e ia ki ngā pā, i tētahi pito o ngā rohe o Īhipa ā puta noa ki tētahi pito o reira. 22 Ko te oneone anake ia o ngā tohunga kīhai i hokona e ia; i whakaritea hoki tētahi wāhi e Parao mā ngā tohunga, ā, i kai rātou i tā rātou wāhi i hōmai e Parao mā rātou; koia tē hokona ai e rātou ō rātou oneone.

23 Ā, ka mea a Hōhepa ki te iwi, "Nanā, kua hokona nei koutou e ahau ināianei, me tō koutou oneone, mā Parao. Nā, he purapura mā koutou, ruia te whenua. 24 Ā, ka whai hua ā mua, me hōmai e koutou te rima o ngā wāhi ki a Parao, ā, mā koutou ngā wāhi e whā, hei purapura mō te māra, hei kai hoki mā koutou, mā te hunga hoki i roto i ō koutou whare, hei kai anō hoki mā ā koutou tamariki."

25 Ā, ka mea rātou, "Ka ora mātou i a koe; kia manakohia mātou e tōku ariki, hei pononga mātou mā Parao."

26 Nā, ka whakatakotoria te tikanga e Hōhepa mō te oneone o Īhipa ā tae noa mai ki tēnei rā, mā Parao te rima o ngā wāhi; hāunga ia te oneone o ngā tohunga, kīhai hoki tēnā i riro i a Parao.

Te Ōhākī a Īharaira

27 Nā, ka noho a Īharaira ki te whenua o Īhipa, ki te whenua o Kohena; ka whai kāinga rātou ki reira, ka hua, ka nui whakaharahara. 28 Ā, kotahi tekau mā whitu ngā tau i ora ai a Hākopa ki te whenua o Īhipa; ā, kotahi rau e whā tekau mā whitu ngā tau o te oranga o Hākopa.

29 Nā, ka whakatata ngā rā o Īharaira e mate ai ia; ā, ka karanga i tāna tama, i a Hōhepa, ka mea ki a ia, "Nā, ki te mea ka manakohia ahau e koe, tēnā, whakapākia mai tōu ringa ki raro i tōku hūhā, ā, whakaputaina mai he aroha, he pono ki ahau; kaua rā ahau e tanumia ki Īhipa. 30 Engari, kia takoto ahau ki ōku mātua, me kawe atu ahau e koe i Īhipa, me tanu hoki ki tō rātou urupā."

Ā, ka mea ia, "Ka rite i ahau tāu kupu."

31 Ā, ka mea ia ki a ia, "Oati mai ki ahau." Ā, oati ana ia ki a ia, ā, ka piko a Īharaira ki runga ki te urunga o te moenga.