3. And he questioned them, "What do you have for work?" They responded: "Your servants are pastors of sheep, both we and our fathers.
4. We came to sojourn in your land, because there is no grass for the flocks of your servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Canaan. And we petition you that you may order us, your servants, to be in the land of Goshen."
5. And so the king said to Joseph: "Your father and brothers have come to you.
6. The land of Egypt is in your sight. Cause them to live in the best place, and deliver to them the land of Goshen. And if you know there to be industrious men among them, appoint these as foremen over my cattle."
7. After this, Joseph brought in his father to the king, and he stood him in his sight. He blessed him,
8. and he questioned him: "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
9. He responded, "The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers."
10. And blessing the king, he went outside.
11. Truly, Joseph gave his father and brothers a possession in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed.
12. And he fed them, along with all his father's house, providing portions of food to each one.
13. For in the whole world there was a lack of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, most of all Egypt and Canaan,