Amplified Bible

Genesis 47:5-14 Amplified Bible (AMP)

5. And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you.

6. The land of Egypt is before you; make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any men of ability among them, put them in charge of my cattle.

7. Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8. And Pharaoh asked Jacob, How old are you?

9. Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and they have not attained to those of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage.

10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

11. Joseph settled his father and brethren and gave them a possession in Egypt in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses (Goshen), as Pharaoh commanded.

12. And Joseph supplied his father and his brethren and all his father's household with food, according to [the needs of] their families.

13. [In the course of time] there was no food in all the land, for the famine was distressingly severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan hung in doubt and wavered by reason of the hunger (destitution, starvation) of the famine.

14. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan [in payment] for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.