Genesis 46-47 (21st Century King James Version)

Genesis 46

 ¹And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

   
 ²And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."

   
 ³And He said, "I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation.

   
 ⁴I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes."

   
 ⁵And Jacob rose up from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

   
 ⁶And they took their cattle and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

   
 ⁷his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters; and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

   
 ⁸And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

   
 ⁹And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu, and Hezron and Carmi.

   
 ¹⁰And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

   
 ¹¹And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

   
 ¹²And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan, and Shelah and Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

   
 ¹³And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah and Job, and Shimron.

   
 ¹⁴And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel.

   
 ¹⁵These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

   
 ¹⁶And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

   
 ¹⁷And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishuah, and Isui and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

   
 ¹⁸These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bore unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

   
 ¹⁹The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

   
 ²⁰And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, bore unto him.

   
 ²¹And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

   
 ²²These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.

   
 ²³And the son of Dan: Hushim.

   
 ²⁴And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni, and Jezer and Shillem.

   
 ²⁵These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bore these unto Jacob; all the souls were seven.

   
 ²⁶All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six.

   
 ²⁷And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

   
 ²⁸And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph to direct his face unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

   
 ²⁹And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

   
 ³⁰And Israel said unto Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive."

   
 ³¹And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house, "I will go up and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, `My brethren and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come unto me.

   
 ³²And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks and their herds, and all that they have.'

   
 ³³And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say, `What is your occupation?'

   
 ³⁴that ye shall say, `Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we and also our fathers,' that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians."

   

Genesis 47

 ¹Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brethren, and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

   
 ²And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

   
 ³And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, "What is your occupation?" And they said unto Pharaoh, "Thy servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers."

   
 ⁴They said moreover unto Pharaoh, "To sojourn in the land have we come, for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

   
 ⁵And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph, saying, "Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee.

   
 ⁶The land of Egypt is before thee. In the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell; and if thou knowest any industrious men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle."

   
 ⁷And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

   
 ⁸And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, "How old art thou?"

   
 ⁹And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto 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 Pharaoh.

   
 ¹¹And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, 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 brethren and all his father's household with bread, according to their families.

   
 ¹³And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, 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 corn 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 unto Joseph and said, "Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? For the money faileth."

   
 ¹⁶And Joseph said, "Give your cattle; and I will give to you for your cattle, if money fail."

   
 ¹⁷And they brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds and for the asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

   
 ¹⁸When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, "We will not hide it from my lord that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle. There is not anything left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.

   
 ¹⁹Why shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not desolate."

   
 ²⁰And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, 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 even to the other end thereof.

   
 ²²Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they sold not their lands.

   
 ²³Then Joseph said unto the people, "Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

   
 ²⁴And it shall come to pass in the harvest, that ye shall give a fifth part unto 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 food for your little ones."

   
 ²⁵And they said, "Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."

   
 ²⁶And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have a fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

   
 ²⁷And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, 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 and seven years.

   
 ²⁹And the time drew nigh that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph and said unto him, "If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.

   
 ³⁰But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." And he said, "I will do as thou hast said."

   
 ³¹And he said, "Swear unto me." And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.