Joseph<n id="1" /> collected all the excess food<n id="2" /> in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities.<n id="3" /> In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.

Now go up to my father quickly<n id="1" /> and tell him, &#8216;This is what your son Joseph says: &#8220;God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them,<n id="1" /> and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob&#8217;s spirit revived.

Tell him, &#8216;Your servants have taken care of cattle<n id="1" /> from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,&#8217; so that you may live in the land of Goshen,<n id="2" /> for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting<n id="3" /> to the Egyptians.&#8221;p>

Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment<n id="1" /> for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh&#8217;s palace.<n id="2" />

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians<n id="1" /> came to Joseph and said, &#8220;Give us food! Why should we die<n id="2" /> before your very eyes because our money has run out?&#8221;p>

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys.<n id="1" /> He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for livestock.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each<n id="1" /> of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe.<n id="2" /> So the land became Pharaoh&#8217;s.

<p class="poetry">the Angel<n id="1" /> who has protected me<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">from all harm &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">bless these boys.p> <p class="poetry">May my name be named in them,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.p> <p class="poetry">May they grow into a multitude on the earth.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When Joseph&#8217;s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, &#8220;What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay<n id="1" /> us in full<n id="2" /> for all the harm<n id="3" /> we did to him?&#8221;

And the <sc>Lordsc> smelled the soothing aroma<n id="1" /> and said<n id="2" /> to himself,<n id="3" /> &#8220;I will never again curse<n id="4" /> the ground because of humankind, even though<n id="5" /> the inclination of their minds<n id="6" /> is evil from childhood on.<n id="7" /> I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.p>