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• There I shall provide for you -- for there are five years of famine still to come -- so that you, your household and all yours are not reduced to penury.' " (Genesis 45, 11)

• Israel's sons did as they were told. Joseph gave them waggons as Pharaoh had ordered, and he gave them provisions for the journey. (Genesis 45, 21)

• and Israel said, 'That is enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die.' (Genesis 45, 28)

• So Israel set out with all his possessions. Arriving at Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. (Genesis 46, 1)

• God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, 'Jacob, Jacob,' he said. 'Here I am,' he replied. (Genesis 46, 2)

• So Jacob left Beersheba. Israel's sons conveyed their father Jacob, their little children and their wives in the waggons Pharaoh had sent to fetch him. (Genesis 46, 5)

• Israel sent Judah ahead to Joseph, so that Judah might present himself to Joseph in Goshen. When they arrived in Goshen, (Genesis 46, 28)

• Joseph had his chariot made ready and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as he appeared he threw his arms round his neck and for a long time wept on his shoulder. (Genesis 46, 29)

• Israel said to Joseph, 'Now I can die, now that I have seen you in person and seen you still alive.' (Genesis 46, 30)

• They went on to tell Pharaoh, 'We have come to stay in this country for the time being, since there is no pasturage for your servants' flocks, Canaan being stricken with famine. So now please allow your servants to settle in the region of Goshen.' (Genesis 47, 4)

• And on all the earth around there was now no food anywhere, for the famine had grown very severe, and Egypt and Canaan were both weak with hunger. (Genesis 47, 13)

• Thus Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, since one by one the Egyptians sold their fields, so hard pressed were they by the famine; and the whole country passed into Pharaoh's possession, (Genesis 47, 20)