7And Joseph brought Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?” 9And Jacob told Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage”. 10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before him. 11And 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 Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with food, according to their families.

13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14And 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. 15And when money failed 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? But the money fails.” 16And Joseph said, “Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fails”. 17And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, for the flocks, for the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. 18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 19Why shall 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; and give us seed, that we may plant and live, that the land be not desolate”. 20And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. 21And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end. 22Only the land of the priests was not bought; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Pharaoh, and they ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them: that is why they did not sell their lands.

23Then Joseph said to the people, “Look, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh; here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24And it shall be, in the harvest, that you shall give the fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those of your households, and for your little ones”. 25And they said, “You have saved our lives: let us find grace in your sight, and we will be Pharaoh's servants”. 26And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests, which did not become Pharaoh's.

27And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. 28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty-seven years. 29And the time drew near that Israel must die; and he called his son, Joseph, and said to him, “If I have found grace in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt: 30But I will lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place”. And he said, “I will do as you have said”. 31And he said, “Swear to me”. And he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.