And Ioseph wẽt and tolde Pharao and sayde: my father and my brethern
their shepe and their beastes and all that they haue/ are come out of
the lãde of Canaan and are in the lande of Gosan. And Ioseph toke a
parte of his brethern: euen fyue of them/ and presented them vnto
Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto his brethern: what is youre occupation?
And they sayde vnto Pharao: feaders of shepe are thi seruauntes/ both
we ãd also oure fathers. They sayde moreouer vnto Pharao: for to
sogeorne in the lande are we come/ for thy seruauntes haue no pasture
for their shepe so sore is the fameshment in the lande of Canaan. Now
therfore let thy seruauntes dwell in the lande of Gosan.
And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: thy father and thy brethren are come
vnto the. The londe of Egipte is open before the: In the best place of
the lande make both thy father and thy brothren dwell: And even in the
lond of Gosan let them dwell. Moreouer yf thou knowe any men of
actiuyte amonge them/ make them ruelars ouer my catell. And Ioseph
brought in Iacob his father and sett him before Pharao And Iacob
blessed Pharao. And Pharao axed Iacob/ how old art thou? And Iacob
sayde vnto Pharao: the dayes of my pilgremage are an hundred and .xxx.
yeres. Few and euell haue the dayes of my lyfe bene/ and haue not
attayned vnto the yeres of the lyfe of my fathers in the dayes of
their pilgremages. And Iacob blessed Pharao and went out from him. And
Ioseph prepared dwellinges for his father and his brethern/ and gaue
them possessions in the londe of Egipte/ in the best of the londe: euẽ
in the lande of Raemses/ as Pharao commaunded. And Ioseph made
prouysion for his father/ his brethern and all his fathers housholde/
as yonge childern are fedd with bread.
There was no bread in all the londe/ for the derth was exceadĩge sore:
so y^t y^e lõde of Egipte & y^e lõde of Canaan/ were fameshyd by y^e
reason of y^e derth. And Ioseph brought together all y^e money y^t
was founde in y^e lãde of Egipte and of Canaan/ for y^e corne which
they boughte: & he layde vp the money in Pharaos housse.
When money fayled in the lãde of Egipte & of Canaan/ all the Egiptians
came vnto Ioseph and sayde: geue us sustenaunce: wherfore suffrest
thou vs to dye before the/ for oure money is spent. Then sayde Ioseph:
brynge youre catell/ and I will geue yow for youre catell/ yf ye be
without money. And they brought their catell vnto Ioseph. And he gaue
them bread for horses and shepe/ and oxen and asses: so he fed them
with bread for all their catell that yere.
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