The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

¶ Iacob i•• broughe before Pharao: to hym i•• gyuen the lande of Gosan. He maheth his son swere for his buryall.

CAPI. XLVII.

IOseph came therfore / and tolde Pharao, [unspec A] and sayde: my Father, and my brethren, theyr shepe, and theyr oxen / and all that they haue, are come out of the lande of Ca∣naan, and beholde, they are in the lande of Gosan. And Ioseph toke of the hymnoost of his brethren: euen fyue men, and presented them vnto Pharao. And Pharao sayde vnto his brethren: what is your occupacyon? And they answered Pharao: shepheerdes are thy seruauntes / bothe we and also our fathers.

They sayde moreouer vnto Pharao: for to * 1.1 soiourne in the lande are we come / for thy seruauntes haue no pasture for theyr shepe / so sore is the famyn in the lande of Canaan. Nowe therfore let thy seruaūtes dwell in the lande of Gosan.

And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: thy fa∣ther, [unspec B] and thy brethren are come vnto the. The lande of Egypte is before the: In the best place of the lande make bothe thy father and thy brethren dwell: euen in the lande of Go∣san let them dwell. Moreouer yf thou knowe any men of actiuyte amonge them, make th•• rulers ouer my cattell. And Ioseph brought in Iacob his father, and set hym before Pha¦rao. And Iacob blessyd Pharao. And Pha∣rao sayde vnto Iacob: howe olde arte thou? Iacob sayde vnto Pharao: the dayes of my pylgrimage are an hundred and. xxx. yeares. Fewe and euyll haue the dayes of my lyfe ben, and haue not attayned vnto the yeares of the life of my fathers in the dayes of theyr pylgrimages. And Iacob blessed Pharao, and went out from hym.

And Ioseph prepared dwellynges for his Father and his brethren, and gaue them pos∣sessions in the lande of Egypte / in the best of the lande: euen in the lande of Rameses, as Pharao had cōmaunded. And Ioseph made prouisyon for his father, his brethren / and al his fathers housholde with breade, euen as [unspec C] yonge chyldren are fed.

There was no breade in all the lande / for

the derthe was exceadynge sore: so that the lande of Egypte and the lande of Canaan were famysshed by the reason of the derthe. And Ioseph brought togyther all the money that was founde in the lande of Egypte and of Canaan, for the corne whiche they bought & he layde vp the money in Pharaos house. When money fayled in the lande of Egypte, and of Canaan, all the Egyptians came vn∣to Ioseph, and sayde. Gyue vs breade: wher∣fore suffrest thou vs to dye before the, when our money is spente? Then sayde Ioseph: brynge your cattell, and I wyll gyue you for [unspec D] your cattel yf ye be without money. And they brought theyr cattell vnto Ioseph. And Io∣seph gaue them breade for horses and shepe, and oxen, and asses, and fed them with bread for all theyr cattell that yeare.

But when that yere was ended, they came vnto hym the nexte yere, and sayd vnto hym. We wyl not hyde it from my lorde, howe that our money is spente, my Lorde also had our cattell & beastes, neyther is there ought lefte in the syght of my lorde, but euen our bodies and oure landes. Wherfore lettest thou vs dye before thyne eyes, and the lande to go to nought? Bye vs and oure landes for breade, and bothe we and our landes wyll be bonde to Pharao. Onely gyue vs seede, that we maye lyue and not dye, and that the lande go not to waste.

And so Ioseph boughte all the lande of Egypt for Pharao. For the Egyptians solde [unspec E] euery man his lande / bycause the derth was sore vpon them, and so the land became Pha¦raos. And he appoynted the people vnto the Cityes from one syde of Egypte vnto the other: onely the lande of the Preestes bought he not. For the Preestes had an ordinaunce of Pharao, that they shulde care that whiche was apointed vnto them, which Pharao had gyuen them, wherfore they sold not theyr lan∣des. Then Ioseph had sayde vnto the folke: beholde, I haue bought you this day & your lande for Pharao. Take there seede and sow the lande. And of the encrease, ye shall gyue the fyfth to Pharao, and. iiii. partes shall be your owne, for seede of the felde, and for you, and them of your housholdes, and for youre chyldren, to eate. And they answered.

Thou hast saued our lyues. Let vs fynde [unspec F] grace in the syght of my Lorde, and we wyll be Pharaos seruauntes. And Ioseph made it a lawe ouer the lande of Egypte vnto this day, that Pharao shulde haue the fyfte parte excepte the lande of the preestes onely, which was not Pharaos.

And Israel dwelte in Egypte: euen in the countrey of Gosan. And they had theyr pos∣sessyons therin, and grewe and multiplied ex∣cedynglye. Moreouer, Iacob lyued in the lande of Egypte. xvii. yeres, so that the hole age of Iacob was an hūdred and. xlvii. yere.

When the tyme drewe nye, that Israel [unspec G] must dye: he sent for his sonne Ioseph, & sayd to hym. If I haue founde grace in thy syght oh, put thy hande nowe vnder my thye, and deale mercyfully & truely with me, that thou bury me not in Egypte, but I wyll lye with my fathers, and thou shalte carye me out of Egypte, and bury me in theyr butyal. And he answered. I wyll do as thou hast sayde. And he sayd * 1.2 swere vnto me. And he sware vnto hym. And Israel worshypped towarde the beddes heade.

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