¹ And Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, have come out·​·of the land of Canaan; and behold they are in the land of Goshen.

² And from a part^* of his brothers he took five men^◦, and placed^◦ them before Pharaoh.

³ And Pharaoh said to^▵ his brothers, What are your deeds? And they said to^▵ Pharaoh, Thy servants are a shepherd of the flock, both^◦ we^◦ and^◦ our fathers.

⁴ And they said to^▵ Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land have we come; for there is no pasture for the flock which belongs to thy servants; for the famine is heavy in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray^◦, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

⁵ And Pharaoh said to^▵ Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brothers have come to^▵ thee;

⁶ the land of Egypt, it^◦ is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brothers dwell; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if thou knowest, and there·​·be among^◦ them, men^◦ of force, then set them as princes over the livestock that belong to me.

⁷ And Joseph brought Jacob his father, and stood him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

⁸ And Pharaoh said to^▵ Jacob, How·​·many are the days of the years of thy life?

⁹ And Jacob said to^▵ Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings are thirty and a hundred years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.

¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went·​·out from before Pharaoh.

¹¹ And Joseph had his father and his brothers dwell, 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 And Joseph sustained his father, and his brothers, and all the house of his father, with bread, according·​·to^▵ the mouth of the infant.

¹³ And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very heavy, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan labored^◦ in the faces of the famine.

¹⁴ And Joseph collected all the silver that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the purchase which they^◦ purchased; and Joseph brought the silver to the house of Pharaoh.

¹⁵ And the silver was finished from the land of Egypt, and from the land of Canaan, and all Egypt came to^▵ Joseph, saying, Give^▵ us bread, for why should we die in·​·front·​·of thee for the silver is·​·gone^◦?

¹⁶ And Joseph said, Give^▵ your livestock; and I will Give you for your livestock, if silver be·​·gone^◦.

¹⁷ And they brought their livestock to^▵ Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the livestock of the flock, and for the livestock of the herd, and for the donkeys; and he provided^* them with bread in exchange for all their livestock in this^◦ year.

¹⁸ And when this^◦ year finished, they came to^▵ him in the second year, and said to him, We will not conceal^◦ from my lord that the silver is finished; and the livestock of the beast is to^▵ my lord; nothing is·​·left before my lord except^▵ our body and our ground.

¹⁹ Why should· we ·die before thine eyes, both^◦ we^◦ and our ground? buy us and our ground with bread, and we shall be, and our ground, servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we^◦ may live, and not die, and the ground be· not ·desolate.

²⁰ And Joseph bought all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh; for^◦ the Egyptians sold every man^◦ his field, because the famine was strengthened upon them; and the land was Pharaoh’s.

²¹ And the people, he had them cross to the cities, from the edge of the border of Egypt even·​·to its other edge.

²² Only the ground of the priests bought he not; for a stated portion was for the priests from Pharaoh, and they ate their stated portion which Pharaoh had given to them; Therefore they sold not their ground.

²³ And Joseph said to^▵ the people, Behold I have bought you this day and your ground for Pharaoh; behold here is seed for you, and you shall sow the ground.

²⁴ And it shall be in the increase and you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts^* shall be for you, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those in your houses, and for food for your infants.

²⁵ And they said, Thou hast made us live; let us find grace in the eyes of my lord, and we will be servants of Pharaoh.

²⁶ And Joseph set it for a statute even·​·to this day, concerning the ground of Egypt, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the ground of the priests, theirs alone was not for Pharaoh.

²⁷ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they had· a ·possession^◦ in it, and were·​·fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and it was that the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were seven years and forty and a hundred years.

²⁹ And the days of Israel came·​·near to die; and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If, I pray^◦, I have found grace in thine eyes, set, I pray^◦, thy hand under my thigh, and do mercy and truth with·​·me; bury me not, I pray^◦, in Egypt.

³⁰ And I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out·​·of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I^▵ will do according·​·to thy word.

³¹ And he said, Promise to me; and he promised to him. Israel bowed· himself ·down on the head of the bed^◦.

¹ Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

² Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

³ The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

⁴ The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

⁵ In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;

⁶ and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

⁷ They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

⁸ For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

⁹ Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

¹⁰ For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

¹¹ But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

¹² to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.

¹³ Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

¹⁵ "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

¹⁷ I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

¹⁸ Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

¹⁹ As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message."

²⁰ For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

²¹ For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

²² Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

²³ Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

²⁴ Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

²⁵ When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

²⁶ For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.

²⁷ For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

²⁸ Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don't grind it.

²⁹ This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.