These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 47
Tanakh 31 verses
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Then went in and told Pharaoh, and said: ‘My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of ; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.’
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And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
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And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: ‘What is your occupation?’ And they said unto Pharaoh: ‘Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.’
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And they said unto Pharaoh: ‘To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants’ flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of . Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.’
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- 5 And Pharaoh spoke unto , saying: ‘Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee;
- 6 the land of is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.’
- 7 And brought in his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And blessed Pharaoh.
- 8 And Pharaoh said unto : ‘How many are the days of the years of thy life?’
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And said unto Pharaoh: ‘The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.’
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Psalm 39:12 James 4:14 Psalm 39:5 Psalm 119:19 Genesis 35:28 Psalm 119:54 Job 14:1 1 Peter 2:11 Genesis 11:11 Genesis 47:28 Exodus 7:7 Genesis 50:26 2 Corinthians 5:6 Exodus 6:4 Hebrews 13:14 Psalm 89:47-48 Job 8:8-9 Deuteronomy 34:7 Genesis 11:24-25 Job 42:16-17 2 Samuel 19:32-35 1 Chronicles 29:15 Genesis 25:7-8 Hebrews 11:9-16 Joshua 24:29 Psalm 90:3-12 Genesis 5:27 - 10 And blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
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And placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of , in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
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- 12 And sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.
- 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of and the land of languished by reason of the famine.
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And gathered up all the money that was found in the land of , and in the land of , for the corn which they bought; and brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
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And when the money was all spent in the land of , and in the land of , all the Egyptians came unto , and said: ‘Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.’
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And said: ‘Give your cattle, and I will give you [bread] for your cattle, if money fail.’
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And they brought their cattle unto . And gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
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And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him: ‘We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord’s; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
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Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.’
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- 20 So bought all the land of for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh’s.
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And as for the people, he removed them city by city, from one end of the border of even to the other end thereof.
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- 22 Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.
- 23 Then said unto the people: ‘Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
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And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.’
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And they said: ‘Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s bondmen.’
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And made it a concerning the land of unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh’s.
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- 27 And dwelt in the land of , in the land of Goshen; and they got them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
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And lived in the land of seventeen years; so the days of , the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.
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- 29 And the time drew near that must die; and he called his son , and said unto him: ‘If now I have found favour in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in .
- 30 But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of , and bury me in their burying-place.’ And he said: ‘I will do as thou hast said.’
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And he said: ‘Swear unto me.’ And he swore unto him. And bowed down upon the bed’s head.
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