Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 47

GENESIS.

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IO II I2 When jacob replied to Phamh;

‘The days of the years of my stay have been one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the years of the days 0f my life ! and they have not reached to the clays of the years my fathers lived in the days Then jacob blessed Pharoh, and retired from the presence of Pharoh. joseph afterwards settled his father

and his brothers, and gave them pos- session in the land of the Mitzeraim in the best district in the country of Ramases, as he was commanded. joseph also provided food for his father and brothers, and all their families, according to their children. Eiziurg nf (!Eggpi'¤ §Fnmi:w wutinueh. Bread failed in all the country, for

the famine was very severe, and the land of the Mitzeraim and the land of Canan fainted before the famine, therefore joseph gathered up all the money he found in the land of1\/{itzer, and in the land of Canan; and all the Mitzerites came to joseph for the corn which they bought, and joseph brought the money to the treasury of Pharoh. Thus he collected the money from they land of Mitzeraim and the land of Canan. Then all the Mitzerites came to

Provide bread for us, so that we may not die before you, for our money is exhausted} 16 joseph, however, answered them: ‘ Bring your cattle, and I will give you it for your cattle, instead of for 18 20 2l Consequently they brought their

cattle to joseph and he gave them bread, for horses and cattle and sheep; for herdsof oxen and asses he supplied them with bread, in ex- change for all their cattle for that year. But that year ended; so they came

to him in the next year, and said to We have kept back nothing from my lord: We have nothing left before my lord, except our bodies, and our land- Why should we our- selves die before your eyes ? Buy to yourself our land for bread, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharohf Thus the Mitzerites sold every one

his farm, for the famine was cruel upon them;--and the land became Pharoh’s. But he transferred the

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people upon it to fresh villages, from the one extreme boundary of Mitzer 22 to the other extreme of it; except that he did not buy the lands of the priesthood, for he protected the priesthood by laws from Pharoh, and they were fed from rations provided for them; therefore he did not buy their lands. Then joseph proclaimed to the

You see I have bought you to-day, and your land for Pharoh. I will supply seed to you, and you can sow the land. But of its produce you shall give one—fifth to Pharoh, and four-fifthsshall be for yourselves, to sow the fields and to feed you, with those you employ, and as food for your children} Our

lives have found favour in the eyes of my lord, and we will be slaves of So joseph made it the constitution

to this day ;·-—that the land of the Mitzerites was Ph..roh’s for the fifth tax, except the lands ofthe priesthood, which were not to become Pharoh’s. joseph also settled Israel in the

land of the Mitzeraim in the district of Goshen, and they possessed there, and flourished, and increased greatly. 26

@32 §ii:ln¤ess mth the @2atb uf Zlaruh. jacob, however, lived seventeen

years in the land of the Mitzeraim, and all the days of the years of jacob were one hundred and forty- seven years. But the day approached for Israel to die, and he called his scm joseph to him, and said to him, ‘ If now I have found favour in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh, and do to me za true kindness, and bury me not among the Mitzeraim, but lay me to sleep with my fathers, and carry me from Mitzer, and bury me in their burial place} I will do as you Swear to me; ’

and Israel was reclining on the sur- face of his bed. 28

But it was after these events that 48 Your so he took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him; Your som ` joseph has come to you. Then Israel exerted himself and

sat up in his bed. and jacob said to