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GENESIS                            Heart of David Study Bible

               So Yoseph bought all the land of Mitsrayim for Pharaoh, for every man of the
        Mitsrites sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became
        Pharaoh’s. As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of
        Mitsrayim even to the other end of it. Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the
        priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is
        why they didn’t sell their land.
               Then Yoseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for
        Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. It will happen at the
        harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of
        the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
               They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and
        we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
               Yoseph made it a statute concerning the land of Mitsrayim to this day, that Pharaoh
        should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

               Yisrael lived in the land of Mitsrayim, in the land of Goshen; and they got
        themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. Ya`aqob
        lived in the land of Mitsrayim seventeen years. So the days of Ya`aqob, the years of his
        life, were one hundred forty-seven years. The time drew near that Yisrael must die, and he
        called his son Yoseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put
        your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in
        Mitsrayim, but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Mitsrayim, and
        bury me in their burying place.”
               He said, “I will do as you have said.”
               He said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Yisrael bowed himself on the bed’s
        head.
               It happened after these things, that someone said to Yoseph, “Behold, your father is
        sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Someone told Ya`aqob, and
        said, “Behold, your son Yoseph comes to you,” and Yisrael strengthened himself, and sat
        on the bed. Ya`aqob said to Yoseph, “El Shaddai [the Mighty One Who Gives Blessings of
        the Breasts] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Kayinan, and blessed me, and said to me,
        ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of
        peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.’ Now
        your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Mitsrayim before I came to you into
        Mitsrayim, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Shimon, will be mine.
        Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called
        after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. As for me, when I came from Paddan,
        Rakale died by me in the land of Kayinan on the way, when there was still some distance

        to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).


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