Portions: Genesis 47-50

So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh.
The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields,
because the famine was too severe for them.
The land became Pharaoh's,
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude,
from one end of Egypt to the other.
Joseph said to the people,
"Now that I have bought you
and your land today for Pharaoh,
here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.
But when the crop comes in,
give a fifth of it to Pharaoh.
The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields
and as food for yourselves
and your households and your children."
(Genesis 47:20-21;23-24)

Some time later Joseph was told,
"Your father is ill."
So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim
along with him.
When Jacob was told
"Your son Joseph has come to you,"
Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.
(Genesis 48:1-2)

Then he gave them these instructions:
"I am about to be gathered to my people.
Bury me with my fathers
in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
the cave in the field of Machpelah,
near Mamre in Canaan,
which Abraham brought as a burial place
from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.
There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried,
there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried,
and there I buried Leah.
The field and the cave in it
were bought from the Hittites.
When Jacob had finished
giving instructions to his sons,
he drew his feet up into the bed,
breathed his last
and was gathered to his people.
(Genesis 49:29-33)

Joseph stayed in Egypt,
along with all his father's family.
He lived a hundred and ten years
and saw the third generation of Ephraim's children.
Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh
were placed at birth of Joseph's knees.
(Genesis 50:22-23)