There was no
bread in all the land, for the dearth was exceeding sore: so that
the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan, were famished by the
reason of the dearth. And Ioseph brought together all the money
that was found in the land of Egypt and of Canaan, for the corn
which they bought: and he laid up the money in Pharao's house.
When money failed in the land of Egypt and of Canaan, all the
Egyptians came unto Ioseph and said: give us sustenance: wherefore
sufferest thou us to die before thee: for our money is spent. Then
said Ioseph: bring your cattle, and I will give yow for your
cattle, if ye be without money. And they brought their cattle unto
Ioseph. And he gave them bread for horses and sheep, and oxen and
asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the next year and
said unto him: we will not hide it from my lord, how that we have
neither money nor cattle for my lord: there is no more left for my
lord, but even our bodies and our lands. Wherefore lettest thou us
die before thine eyes, and the land to go to nought? buy us and
our lands for bread: and let both us and our lands be bond to
Pharao. Give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the
land go not to waste.
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