Genesis 47:1-12 - Jacob Settles In Goshen

¹ and Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brethren, their sheep and their beasts and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan and are in the land of Goshen." ² And Joseph took a part of his brethren: even five of them, and presented them unto Pharaoh. ³ And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, "What is your occupation?" And they said unto Pharaoh, "Feeders of sheep are thy servants, both we and also our fathers." ⁴ They said moreover unto Pharaoh, "For to sojourn in the land are we come, for thy servants have no pasture for their sheep, so sore is the famishment in the land of Canaan. Now therefore let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

⁵ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee. ⁶ The land of Egypt is open before thee: In the best place of the land make both thy father and thy brethren dwell. And even in the land of Goshen let them dwell. Moreover, if thou know any men of activity among them, make them rulers over my cattle."

⁷ And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ⁸ And Pharaoh asked Jacob, "How old art thou?"

⁹ And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages." ¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from him.

¹¹ And Joseph prepared dwellings for his father and his brethren, and gave them possessions in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land: even in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded. ¹² And Joseph made provision for his father, his brethren, and all his father's household, as young children are fed with bread.