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Genesis 44

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Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,

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and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.

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As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their asses.

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When they had gone but a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?

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Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he divines? You have done wrong in so doing.'"

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When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.

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They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

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Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan; how then should we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

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With whomever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."

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He said, "Let it be as you say: he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be blameless."

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Then every man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and every man opened his sack.

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And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

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Then they rent their clothes, and every man loaded his ass, and they returned to the city.

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When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there; and they fell before him to the ground.

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Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

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And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."

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But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

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Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.

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My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

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And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children; and his father loves him.'

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Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.'

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We said to my lord, 'The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

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Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.'

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When we went back to your servant my father we told him the words of my lord.

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And when our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food,'

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we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

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Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons;

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one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces; and I have never seen him since.

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If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.'

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Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the lad's life,

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when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

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For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.'

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Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his brothers.

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For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father."

Genesis 45

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Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, "Make every one go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

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And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.

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And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph; is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.

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So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, I pray you." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

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And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

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For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

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And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

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So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Make haste and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry;

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you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have;

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and there I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come; lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.'

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And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

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You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down here."

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Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

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And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his brothers talked with him.

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When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants well.

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And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;

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and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'

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Command them also, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

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Give no thought to your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

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The sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

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To each and all of them he gave festal garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five festal garments.

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To his father he sent as follows: ten asses loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.

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Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."

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So they went up out of Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.

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And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them.

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But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived;

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and Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive; I will go and see him before I die."

Genesis 46

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So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."

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Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation.

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I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again; and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."

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Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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They also took their cattle and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

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his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters; all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

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Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's first-born,

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and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

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The sons of Simeon: Jemu'el, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitish woman.

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The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merar'i.

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The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

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The sons of Is'sachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

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The sons of Zeb'ulun: Sered, Elon, and Jah'leel

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(these are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three).

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The sons of Gad: Ziph'ion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Aro'di, and Are'li.

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The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el

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(these are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob--sixteen persons).

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The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

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And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manas'seh and E'phraim, whom As'enath, the daughter of Poti'phera the priest of On, bore to him.

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And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Na'aman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard

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(these are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob--fourteen persons in all).

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The sons of Dan: Hushim.

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The sons of Naph'tali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem

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(these are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob--seven persons in all).

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All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all;

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and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.

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He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to appear before him in Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

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Then Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

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Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."

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Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;

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and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

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When Pharaoh calls you, and says, 'What is your occupation?'

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you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

Genesis 47

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So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen."

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And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.

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Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."

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They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

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Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

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The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my cattle."

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Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

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And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

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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 have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."

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And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

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Then Joseph settled 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 Ram'eses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

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Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.

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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.

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And 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 food; why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."

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And Joseph answered, "Give your cattle, and I will give you food in exchange for your cattle, if your money is gone."

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So they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the asses: and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their cattle that year.

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And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.

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Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."

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So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's;

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and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

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Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh, and lived on the allowance which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

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Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

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And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones."

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And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh."

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So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.

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Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.

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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.

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And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh, and promise to deal loyally and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,

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but let me lie with my fathers; carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."

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And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.

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