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Genesis 47:5-9

Genesis 47:5

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Genesis 47:6

The land of Egypt is at your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

Genesis 47:7

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:8

And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

Genesis 47:9

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my living abroad are 130; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their living abroad.”