Genesis 47:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 Joseph settled his father and brothers and gave them a holding in Egypt on the pick of the land, in the region of Rameses,[a] as Pharaoh had ordered. 12 And Joseph provided food for his father and brothers and his father’s whole household, down to the youngest.
Joseph’s Land Policy. 13 Since there was no food in all the land because of the extreme severity of the famine, and the lands of Egypt and Canaan were languishing from hunger,
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