with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
047:018 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.
047:019 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."
047:020 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh,
for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.
047:021 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.
047:022 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.
047:023 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.
047:024 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."
047:025 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor
in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
047:026 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.
047:027 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen;
and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful,
and multiplied exceedingly.
047:028 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.
047:029 The time drew 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,
047:030 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me
out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place."
He said, "I will do as you have said."
047:031 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed
himself on the bed's head.
048:001 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold,
your father is sick." He took with him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.
048:002 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,"