22. Only the priests’ lands Joseph did not acquire. Since the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived off the allowance Pharaoh had granted them, they did not have to sell their land.
23. Joseph told the people: “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh, here is your seed for sowing the land.
24. But when the harvest is in, you must give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, while you keep four-fifths as seed for your fields and as food for yourselves and your households and as food for your children.”
25. “You have saved our lives!” they answered. “We have found favor with my lord; now we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
26. Thus Joseph made it a statute for the land of Egypt, which is still in force, that a fifth of its produce should go to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not pass over to Pharaoh.
27. Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. There they acquired holdings, were fertile, and multiplied greatly.
28. Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years; the span of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.
29. When the time approached for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him: “If it pleases you, put your hand under my thigh as a sign of your enduring fidelity to me; do not bury me in Egypt.
30. When I lie down with my ancestors, take me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” “I will do as you say,” he replied.
31. But his father demanded, “Swear it to me!” So Joseph swore to him. Then Israel bowed at the head of the bed.