Genesis 47
1 Ingressus ergo Ioseph nunciavit Pharaoni, dicens: Pater meus et fratres, oves eorum et armenta, et cuncta quae possident, venerunt de Terra Chanaan: et ecce consistunt in Terra Gessen.
Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
2 Extremos quoque fratrum suorum quinque viros constituit coram rege:
And he took some of his brothers, even five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
3 quos ille interrogavit: Quid habetis operis? Responderunt: Pastores ovium sumus servi tui, et nos, et patres nostri.
And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.
4 Ad peregrinandum in terram tuam venimus: quoniam non est herba gregibus servorum tuorum, ingravescente fame in terra Chanaan: petimusque ut esse nos iubeas servos tuos in Terra Gessen.
They said morever to Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 Dixit itaque rex ad Ioseph: Pater tuus et fratres tui venerunt ad te.
And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers are come to you:
6 Terra Aegypti in conspectu tuo est: in optimo loco fac eos habitare, et trade eis Terram Gessen. Quod si nosti in eis esse viros industrios, constitue illos magistros pecorum meorum.
The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and brothers to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
7 Post haec introduxit Ioseph patrem suum ad Regem, et statuit eum coram eo: qui benedicens illi,
And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 et interrogatus ab eo: Quot sunt dies annorum vitae tuae?
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you?
9 Respondit: Dies peregrinationis meae centum triginta annorum sunt, parvi et mali, et non pervenerunt usque ad dies patrum meorum quibus peregrinati sunt.
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
10 Et benedicto rege, egressus est foras.
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
11 Ioseph vero patri et fratribus suis dedit possessionem in Aegypto in optimo terrae loco, Ramesses, ut praeceperat Pharao.
And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 Et alebat eos, omnemque domum patris sui, praebens cibaria singulis.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
13 In toto enim orbe panis deerat, et oppresserat fames terram, maxime Aegypti et Chanaan.
And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14 E quibus omnem pecuniam congregavit pro venditione frumenti, et intulit eam in aerarium regis.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 Cumque defecisset emptoribus pretium, venit cuncta Aegyptus ad Ioseph, dicens: Da nobis panes: quare morimur coram te, deficiente pecunia?
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in your presence? for the money fails.
16 Quibus ille respondit: Adducite pecora vestra, et dabo vobis pro eis cibos, si pretium non habetis.
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17 Quae cum adduxissent, dedit eis alimenta pro equis, et ovibus, et bobus, et asinis: sustentavitque eos illo anno pro commutatione pecorum.
And they brought their cattle to Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18 Venerunt quoque anno secundo, et dixerunt ei: Non celamus domino nostro quod deficiente pecunia, pecora simul defecerunt: nec clam te est, quod absque corporibus et terra nihil habeamus.
When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is not anything left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Cur ergo moriemur te vidente? et nos et terra nostra tui erimus: eme nos in servitutem regiam, et praebe semina, ne pereunte cultore redigatur terra in solitudinem.
Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20 Emit igitur Ioseph omnem Terram Aegypti, vendentibus singulis possessiones suas prae magnitudine famis. Subiecitque eam Pharaoni,
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
21 et cunctos populos eius a novissimis terminis Aegypti usque ad extremos fines eius,
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
22 praeter terram sacerdotum, quae a rege tradita fuerat eis: quibus et statuta cibaria ex horreis publicis praebebantur, et idcirco non sunt compulsi vendere possessiones suas.
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: why they sold not their lands.
23 Dixit ergo Ioseph ad populos: En ut cernitis, et vos et terram vestram Pharao possidet: accipite semina, et serite agros,
Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: see, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
24 ut fruges habere possitis. Quintam partem regi dabitis: quattuor reliquas permitto vobis in sementem, et in cibum familiis et liberis vestris.
And it shall come to pass in the increase, that you shall give the fifth part to 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.
25 Qui responderunt: Salus nostra in manu tua est: respiciat nos tantum dominus noster, et laeti serviemus regi.
And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
26 Ex eo tempore usque in praesentem diem in universa terra Aegypti regibus quinta pars solvitur, et factum est quasi in legem, absque terra sacerdotali, quae libera ab hac conditione fuit.
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
27 Habitavit ergo Israel in Aegypto, idest, in Terra Gessen, et possedit eam: auctusque est, et multiplicatus nimis.
And Israel dwelled in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 Et vixit in ea decem et septem annis: factique sunt omnes dies vitae illius centum quadraginta septem annorum.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
29 Cumque appropinquare cerneret diem mortis suae, vocavit filium suum Ioseph, et dixit ad eum: Si inveni gratiam in conspectu tuo, pone manum tuam sub femore meo: et facies mihi misericordiam et veritatem, ut non sepelias me in Aegypto:
And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:
30 sed dormiam cum patribus meis, et auferas me de terra hac, condasque in sepulchro maiorum meorum. Cui respondit Ioseph: Ego faciam quod iussisti.
But I will lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial plot. And he said, I will do as you have said.
31 Et ille: Iura ergo, inquit, mihi. Quo iurante, adoravit Israel Deum, conversus ad lectuli caput.
And he said, Swear to me. And he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
