Genesis 47:1

CHAPTER XLVII

Joseph informs Pharaoh that his father and brethren are

arrived in Goshen, 1.

He presents five of his brethren before the king, 2,

who questions them concerning their occupation; they inform

him that they are shepherds, and request permission to dwell

in the land of Goshen, 3, 4.

Pharaoh consents, and desires that some of the most active of

them should be made rulers over his cattle, 5, 6.

Joseph presents his father to Pharaoh, 7,

who questions him concerning his age, 8,

to which Jacob returns an affecting answer, and blesses

Pharaoh, 9, 10.

Joseph places his father and family in the land of Rameses,

(Goshen), and furnishes them with provisions, 11, 12.

The famine prevailing in the land, the Egyptians deliver up

all their money to Joseph to get food, 13-15.

The next year they bring their cattle, 16, 17.

The third, their lands and their persons, 18-21.

The land of the priests Joseph does not buy, as it was a royal

grant to them from Pharaoh, 22.

The people receive seed to sow the land on condition that they

shall give a fifth part of the produce to the king, 23, 24.

The people agree, and Joseph makes it a law all over Egypt, 25, 26.

The Israelites multiply exceedingly, 27.

Jacob, having lived seventeen years in Goshen, and being one

hundred and forty-seven years old, 28,

makes Joseph promise not to bury him in Egypt, but in Canaan, 29, 30.

Joseph promises and confirms it with an oath, 31.

NOTES ON CHAP. XLVII