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And Joseph came in and made known to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks and their herds, and all which is theirs, have come in from the land of Canaan.

And, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took five men from among his brothers and set them before Pharaoh.

And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds of flocks, both we and our fathers.

And they said to Pharaoh, We have come in to stay in the land, because there is no pasture for the flocks which belong to your servants, for the famine is heavy in the land of Canaan. And now please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.

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

The land of Egypt is before you; cause your father and your brothers to live in the best of the land; let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know men of ability among them,make them chiefs of livestock over what

And Joseph brought in his father Jacob and placed him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of your life?

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my camps are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life and they have not reached the days of theyears of the life of my fathers, in the daysof their camps.

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

And Joseph caused his father and his brothers to live, and gave them a place in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.

And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father's house with bread for the mouth of the little ones.