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land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that
the land won’t be desolate.”
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

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