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Ask a QuestionAnd Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so Jacob reached the age of 147 years.
Then Jacob said, Swear to me [that you will do it]. And he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself upon the head of the bed.
And as for the people, he removed them to cities and practically made slaves of them [at their own request], from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other.
Joseph said, Give up your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for [them] if your money is gone.
And they said, You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord; and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
When Kenan was 70 years old, Mahalalel was born.
Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they gained possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.
But let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place. And [Joseph] said, I will do as you have directed.
Solomon's horses were brought out of Egypt, and the king's merchants received them in droves, each at a price.
If the years [to the next Jubilee] are many, you may increase the price, and if the years remaining are few, you shall diminish the price, for the number of the crops is what he is selling to you.
Then were fulfilled the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet when he said, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on Whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,
Man knows not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.
The bronze of the offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price.
The lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats [will furnish you] the price of a field.
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field because of the overwhelming severity of the famine upon them. The land became Pharaoh's,
Why should we perish before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.
Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud [Zaccur], with 70 men.