Pharaoh

And Pharaoh spake vnto Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.

And Ioseph brought in Iacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Iacob blessed Pharaoh.

And Pharaoh said vnto Iacob, How old art thou?

1611 marginal noteHeb. how many are the dayes of the yeeres of thy life?

And Iacob said vnto Pharaoh, The dayes of the yeeres of my pilgrimage are an hundred & thirtie yeres: few and euill haue the dayes of the yeeres of my life bene, and haue not attained vnto the dayes of the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimage.

1611 marginal noteHeb. 11.9,13.

And Iacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

¶ And Ioseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gaue them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Wherfore shall we die before thine eyes, both we, and our land? buy vs and our land for bread, and we and our land will be seruants vnto Pharaoh: and giue vs seede that we may liue and not die, that the land be not desolate.

And Ioseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians sold euery man his field, because the famine preuailed ouer them: so the land became Pharaohs.

Onely the land of the Priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eate their portion which Pharaoh gaue them: wherefore they solde not their lands.

1611 marginal noteOr, Princes

Then Ioseph said vnto the people, Behold, I haue bought you this day, and your land for Pharaoh: Loe, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.