1. Then Joseph came and informed Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers and their flocks and their cattle and everything that belongs to them have come from the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
2. From among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh.
3. Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”
4. Then they said to Pharaoh, “We came to dwell temporarily in the land, since there is no pasture for the flocks that belong to your servants, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
5. Pharaoh said to Joseph saying, “Your father and your brothers came to you.
6. The land of Egypt is before you—settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any capable men among them, make them overseers of the livestock—over those that are mine.”
7. Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8. Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How many days are the years of your life?”
9. Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”
10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from Pharaoh’s presence.
11. Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh commanded.
12. And Joseph supported his father and his brothers and his father’s entire household with food for the mouths of the little ones.
13. Now there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe. Both the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.