JOSEPH, RULER OF EGYPT

 

 

 

Joseph them gave them wagons for their wives and children, and provision for the way. To all of his brothers he gave changes of raiment, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment.

 

When they came again to Jacob, their father, and told him, saying, “Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt,” Jacob’s heart fainted, for he could not believe them. And they told him all that Joseph had said.

 

When Jacob saw the wagons, he believed, and said, “Joseph my son is yet alive, I will go and see him before I die.”

 

And Joseph brought his father Jacob, and set him before Pharaoh.

 

And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old art thou?” And Jacob said, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers.”    

 

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

 

 

                                                                                  Gen 46 and 47