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| [[File:Pharaoh.jpg|center|thumb|Joseph the vizier and would initiate all the people of Egypt including the sons of Jacob into a [[corvee]] system of [[Bondage|civil bondage]] except the [[Priest|priests]]. Eventually a [[Pharaoh]] who did not know Joseph make this system rigorous.]]
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| We see Joseph was placed as the vizier of Egypt [[Genesis 41]]. When the Famine came due to climate change there was only grain in Egypt.
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| '''Comments'''
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| Joseph had a spiritual insight concerning many things. He "promised his brothers a home in that fertile eastern district, which afforded many advantages in its proximity to [[Canaan]], its adaptation to pastoral life".<Ref>MacLaren's Expositions commentary</Ref> They needed to keep their livestock and the skills required to care for them for time comes when [[Moses]] takes them out of Egypt. Plus the diet would keep them healthy for the trials that would come.
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| '''[https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/47-3.htm V3]''' "What is your occupation?" (מַּעֲשֵׂיכֶ֑ם ma‘ăśêḵem MemAyinShin'''YodKafMem''')<Ref name="maaseh39">{{04639}}</Ref> <Br>
"Thy servants(עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ ‘ăḇāḏeḵā AyinBeitDaletYodKaf)<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref> are [[shepherds]], both we, and also our fathers(אֲבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃ ’ăḇōwṯênū AlefBeitVavTavYodNunVav)<Ref name="ab01">{{01}}</Ref>.
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| '''[https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/47-4.htm V4]''' "thy servants<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref> have no pasture... for the famine<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref>" continues "we pray thee(נָ֥א nā )<Ref name="na94">{{04994}}</Ref> , let thy servants<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref>  dwell".
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| V7 "Jacob blessed Pharaoh". What is the significance of Jacob blessing(וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ
wayḇāreḵ)<Ref name="barak88">{{01288}}</Ref> Pharaoh?
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| [https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/47-11.htm V11] Joseph ''gave''<Ref name="nathan">{{05414}}</Ref>  them a possession<Ref name="achuzzah">{{0272}}</Ref>  in the land of Egypt as Pharaoh had commanded<Ref name="tsavah">{{06680}}</Ref>. But no one paid for the land.<Ref name="Paysilv">{{Paysilv}}</Ref>
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| '''[https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/47-13.htm V13]''' all the land fainted by reason of the famine. 
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| '''[https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/47-14.htm V14]'''  Joseph gathered up all the money(הַכֶּ֙סֶף֙ hakkesep̄).<Ref name="keceph">{{03701}}</Ref> <Br>If he ''gathered all the money'' what did they use for money?<Ref name="moneypay">{{moneypay}}</Ref><Br>Khazneh el-Far'oun (treasury of the pharaoh) or vizier was the most important official at the royal court only second to the king. 
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| '''Money fails'''<Ref name="moneypay">{{moneypay}}</Ref><Br>Trade was often by barter with [[Commodity money|commodity money]] like grain, oil, or baked bread which contained both. Every commodity from beer to bricks allowed for purchase with "present value". Later, gold, silver, and copper began to be used as Egyptian Currency, mostly with the trade outside Egypt. A copper coin called a ''deben'' was .5 ounce of copper. <Br>'''[[Cashless]]'''<Br>Clay accounting tokens from Mesopotamia and what became known as "dirty money" appeared by 1200 BC when coins became ''scarce''.<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref> '''Scarabs''' of stone and clay were used as money<Ref name="moneypay">{{moneypay}}</Ref> because the money failed.<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref> State-controlled temples produced scarabs with denominated value. Ancient counterfeiting was revealed by archaeologist Tzilla Eshel that found debased coins. Even bullion was debased by a variety of methods and techniques.<Br>See [[Temple of Diana|Temple of Diana]] at [[Ephesus]]. [[Temple of Moneta]].
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| V16 A herdsman has symbiotic relationship with his herd. They are not merely owners of the herd but are one with the herd and flocks. The flocks and herds are a unified biological property.
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| V17 The people gave their natural right  to their livestock and would only maintain a [[legal title]]. They would pledge their own bodies next giving up a portion of their labor. 
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| V18 The year ended,(וַתִּתֹּם֮ wattittōm)<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref> <Br>our money is spent;(תַּ֣ם tam)<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref><Br>You have our cattle. <Br>We only have our bodies(גְּוִיָּתֵ֖נוּ gəwîyāṯênū)<Ref name="geviyah">{{01472}}</Ref>, and our lands:(וְאַדְמָתֵֽנוּ׃ wə’aḏmāṯênū.)<Ref name="adamah">{{0127}}</Ref>
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| V19 <Br> גַּם־  אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙  גַּ֣ם  אַדְמָתֵ֔נוּ <BR>gam-’ănaḥnū gam ’aḏmāṯênū,<Br>'''Both we and our land,'''<Br>----<Br>קְנֵֽה־אֹתָ֥נוּ<Br>qənêh-’ōṯānū<Br>'''Buy us'''<Br>----<Br>בַּלָּ֑חֶם וְנִֽהְיֶ֞ה אֲנַ֤חְנוּ וְאַדְמָתֵ֙נוּ֙  <Br>ballāḥem; wənihyeh ’ănaḥnū wəaḏmāṯênū <Br>  '''for bread, and we and our land'''<Br>----<Br>עֲבָדִ֣ים <Br>‘ăḇāḏîm <Br>'''will be servants'''.<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref>
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| '''V20''' All the land and the people were bought by Joseph for the Pharaoh. The people are making a covenant, an agreement.<Ref name="makeno">{{makeno}}</Ref> 
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| '''V21''' Were the people actually moved to a city or does this verse mean they were brought under a civil authority, a [[civil law]]? Now Pharaoh owned a portion of the labor and a right to the use of their land. They still had to live on the land and work it. They may have had the livestock but only a [[legal title]].<Ref name="legtit">{{legtit}}</Ref>
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| '''V22''' The land of the priests were bought not.
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| '''V23''' 20% tax on all the labor of the people.
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| '''V25''' Joseph made it a law<Ref name="choq06">{{02706}}</Ref> over the land of Egypt
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| '''Questions'''
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| What replaced the gold and silver [[Money|money]] when the pharaoh had it all?
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| Who owned the land and livestock after the [[New Deal|great famine]]?
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| What was the nature of their [[Employ|enslavement]] in the [[corvee]] system of [[Egypt]]?
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| Why was payment important to obtain a [[Law of Nature|lawful title]] as opposed to a [[legal title]]?<Ref name="legtit">{{legtit}}</Ref>
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| Have people returned to the [[bondage of Egypt]]?
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| Why would they return to that [[bondage]]?
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| Is it through [[Money|unjust weights and measures]], through [[CCC|contracts, covenants and constitutions]], or [[covetous practices]]?
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|Why did Jacob want to be buried with his fathers?<Ref name="Paysilv">{{Paysilv}}</Ref> 
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|[https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/gen/47/1/s_47001 1]
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== Jacob's Family Settles in Goshen ==

1 Then Joseph came and told [[Pharaoh]], and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto '''[[Pharaoh]]'''.

=== Pharaoh said ===

3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation?<Ref name="maaseh39">{{04639}}</Ref> And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref> are [[shepherds]], both we, and also our fathers<Ref name="ab01">{{01}}</Ref>.

4 They said moreover unto [[Pharaoh]], For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref> have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref>  is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref>  dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity<Ref name="chayil">{{02428}}</Ref> among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

=== Jacob blessed Pharaoh ===

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed (וַיְבָ֥רֶךְ
wayḇāreḵ)<Ref name="barak88">{{01288}}</Ref> [[Pharaoh]].

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob blessed<Ref name="barak88">{{01288}}</Ref> Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

=== Possession in the land ===

11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave<Ref name="nathan">{{05414}}</Ref>  them a possession<Ref name="achuzzah">{{0272}}</Ref>  in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

== Joseph and the Famine ==

13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

=== Gathered the money ===

14 And Joseph gathered up all the [[money]]<Ref name="keceph">{{03701}}</Ref>  that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money<Ref name="keceph">{{03701}}</Ref> into Pharaoh's house.

15 And when money<Ref name="keceph">{{03701}}</Ref> failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of [[Canaan]], all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money<Ref name="keceph">{{03701}}</Ref> faileth.

=== Took the cattle ===

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money<Ref name="keceph">{{03701}}</Ref> fail.

17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

18 When that year was ended,(וַתִּתֹּם֮ wattittōm)<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref> they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent;(תַּ֣ם tam)<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref> my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies(גְּוִיָּתֵ֖נוּ gəwîyāṯênū)<Ref name="geviyah">{{01472}}</Ref>, and our lands:(וְאַדְמָתֵֽנוּ׃ wə’aḏmāṯênū.)<Ref name="adamah">{{0127}}</Ref>

=== Bought the land ===

19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants<Ref name="ebed50">{{05650}}</Ref> unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

=== To the city ===

21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.


=== Only the priests ===

22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

== Fifth part ==

23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that [[bondage of Egypt|ye shall give the fifth part]]<Ref name="fifthpart">{{fifthpart}}</Ref> unto [[Pharaoh]], and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

26 And Joseph made it a law over<Ref name="choq06">{{02706}}</Ref> the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

== Jacob lived  ==

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.<Ref name="Paysilv">{{Paysilv}}</Ref> And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And [[Israel]] bowed himself upon the bed's head.
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