19. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. Also give us seed, so that we may live and not die, so that the land will not be desolate.”
20. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian man sold his field because the famine was severe on them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.
21. As for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end.
22. Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived off their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their lands.
23. Then Joseph said to the people, “I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh; here is seed for you so you may sow the land.
24. At the harvest, you must give a fifth part to Pharaoh and four parts will be your own, as seed for the field and for your food and for those of your households and for food for your little ones.”
25. They said, “You have saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
26. So Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except from the land of the priests, which did not become Pharaoh’s.
27. Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they had possessions there and grew and became very numerous.
28. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the years of Jacob’s life were one hundred and forty-seven years.
29. When the time drew near when Israel would die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found grace in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,
30. but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.”And he said, “I will do as you have said.”
31. And he said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself at the head of his bed.