Joseph Is Governor of Egypt

47 Then Joseph ^(A)went and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and indeed they are in ^(B)the land of Goshen.” ² And he took five men from among his brothers and ^(C)presented them to Pharaoh. ³ Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, ^(D)“What is your occupation?”

And they said to Pharaoh, ^(E)“Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.” ⁴ And they said to Pharaoh, ^(F)“We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, ^(G)for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants ^(H)dwell in the land of Goshen.”

⁵ Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. ^6 (I)The land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell ^(J)in the land of Goshen. And if you know any competent men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock.”

⁷ Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob ^(K)blessed Pharaoh. ⁸ Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, ^(L)“The days of the years of my ^[a]pilgrimage are ^(M)one hundred and thirty years; ^(N)few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and ^(O)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.” ¹⁰ So Jacob ^(P)blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

¹¹ And Joseph situated 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 ^(Q)Rameses, ^(R)as Pharaoh had commanded. ¹² Then Joseph provided ^(S)his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families.