1 Josef otja karaera Farao na tja: “Tate nomarumbi wandje ve ya okuza kOkanaan nozonyanda nozongombe na avihe, mbi ve na vyo. Owo nambano ve ri morukondwa rwehi ra Gosen.” 2 Neye wa toorora omarumbi we vetano ne ve eta ku Farao. 3 Nu Farao we ve pura a tja: “Oviungura vyeṋu ovingeungura?”
Nowo ve mu zira nai: “Oweṱe ovarise, muhona, tjimuna ootate mukururume tji va ri. 4 Nu twe ya okutura mehi ndi otja ovozonganda, muhona, orondu mehi ra Kanaan mu nourumbu tjinene nu kamu nomaryo kovinamuinyo vyetu. Arikana, muhona, tu esa tu ture mehi ra Gosen.” 5 Farao arire tja tja ku Josef: “Iho nomarumbi woye ve ya kove. 6 Ehi ra Engipte kove ri ri kamwaha. Turisa iho nomarumbi woye komukuma mbu ri omuwamuwa mehi. Va pu pokukatura mehi ra Gosen. Nu tji mo tjiwa ovarumendu tjiva ovaṱakame mu wo, ve pa ve ṱakamise ovinamuinyo imbi ovyandje omuini.”
7 Nu Josef wa eta ihe Jakob komurungu wa Farao. Nu Jakob wa sera Farao ondaya. 8 Nu Farao wa pura Jakob a tja: “U nozombura ngapi?”
9 Nu Jakob wa zira a tja: “Ozombura zouyenda wandje kombanda yehi za vaza esere nomirongo vitatu. Ozombura nḓa za ri ouṱiṱi, nu za ri neputi, kaze ṱeki pozombura inḓa zootate mukururume.” 10 Jakob arire tja virikiza Farao nokumusera ondaya, na i. 11 Josef arire tja turisa ihe nomarumbi we mehi ra Engipte, ne ve pe ovirongo momahi inga omawa mehi ra Ramses otja Farao punga a rakiza. 12 Josef wa yandja ovikurya ku ihe na komarumbi we na konganda aihe ya ihe otja kotjivaro tjozondekurona.
Ouhona wa Josef moruveze rwourumbu
13 Ourumbu wa ri ounene tjinene, nga tji pe ha ri ovikurya mehi arihe, novandu va Engipte nOvakanaan va ngundiparisiwa i ondjara. 14 Nu Josef wa wonga ovimariva vyovandu va Engipte nOvakanaan, mbi va randa na vyo ovikokotwa. Neye wa eta imbi ovimariva kondjuwo youhona ya Farao. 15 Novimariva avihe mOengipte na mOkanaan tji vya manuka, Ovaengipte avehe ve ya ku Josef nave tja: “Tu pao ovikurya, o tu tarere amatu koka; tjita otjiṋa! Ovimariva vyetu avihe vya manuka.”
16 Nu Josef wa tja: “Eteye ovinamuinyo vyeṋu, nu ami me mu pe mo ovikurya okupimbasana, ovimariva vyeṋu avihe tji vya manuka.” 17 Owo tji va eta ovinamuinyo vyawo ku Josef, eye we ve pa ovikurya mokupimbasana noukambe nozonḓu nozongombo nozongombe nousino. Ombura ndjo Josef we ve pa ovikurya mokupimbasana novinamuinyo vyawo avihe.
18 Ombura ndjo tji ya kapita ve ya ku Josef ave tja: “Eṱe katu nokuhoreka ouatjiri kove, muhona, kutja ovimariva vyetu avihe vya manuka, nokutja ovinamuinyo vyetu vya rire ovyoye. Kape na tji tja hupa okuyandja kove posi yotutu twetu novikunino vyetu. 19 Mo tu tarere tjike amatu koka nokupandjara ovikunino vyetu? Tjita otjiṋa! Tu randa puna ovikunino vyetu okupimbasana novikurya. Matu rire ovakarere va Farao, neye ma rire omuini wovikunino vyetu. Tu pao ozondwi kutja atu ha ṱondjara nehi ari ha ṱu.”
20 Josef wa randera Farao ovikunino avihe mOengipte. Omuengipte auhe wa randisa okuti kwe, ondjara tjinga aya ri onḓeu. Ehi arihe otji ra rira ora Farao. 21 Josef wa tjita imba ovandu avehe okurira ovakarere, okuza kotjikoro tja Engipte nga komayandero waro. 22 Ehi porwaro nde ha randere oro ndi nda ri orovapristeri. Orondu ovapristeri tjinga ave pewa ondjambi onḓikame i Farao, nowo ave hupu mondjambi ndji. Opuyave ha zu okurandisa ovikunino vyawo. 23 Josef arire tja tja kovandu: “Tareye, ami mbe mu randa puna ovikunino vyeṋu mu rire ova Farao. Ozondwi ozo nḓa, kuneye movikunino vyeṋu. 24 Moruveze rwomakondero mamu sokuyandja okarupa kemwe inga oketjatano ku Farao. Ovikokotwa mbya hupu, okutja oyeṋu vyokukuna nokurira ovikurya vyeṋu novymomuhoko novyovanatje veṋu.”
25 Owo va zira nave tja: “Ove wa yama ominyo vyetu. Nu arikana, ngatu mune otjari momeho womuhona wetu, neṱe matu rire ovakarere va Farao.” 26 Komuhingo mbwi Josef otja twa po etwako ezikame mehi ra Engipte ndi ri po nga ku ndinondi kutja okarupa oketjatano kovikondwa ma ke rire oka Farao. Ehi orini rovapristeri ondi ha ririre ora Farao.
Ombango osenina ya Jakob
27 Ovaisrael otji va tura mOengipte mehi ra Gosen. Owo va tumba nave kara novanatje ovengi. 28 Nu Jakob wa tura mehi ra Engipte ozombura omurongo na hambombari, nga tja kara notjiwondo tjozombura esere rimwe nomirongo vine na hambombari. 29 Noruveze rwokukoka kwa Israel tji rwa yenena wa isana omuzandu we Josef na tja ku ye: “Arikana ripeta ku ami; twa eke roye kevango randje nu ndji yanena kutja mo kara omunarusuvero nomuṱakame ku ami, no he ndji paka mOengipte. 30 Ami me vanga okukapakwa pootate; ndji toora okuza mehi ra Engipte nu u kendjipake pomaendo wawo.”
Josef wa zira na tja ku ye: “Ii, ami me tjiti otja pu mo hee.”
31 Israel wa tja ku ye: “Ndji yanena kutja otji mo tjiti.” Nu Josef we mu yanena, nu Israel we ripeta kotjiuru tjombete ye na kumbu.
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. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants 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 among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed 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 Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
11 ¶ And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession 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.
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. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money 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 into Pharaoh’s house. 15 And when money 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 faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money 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, 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; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 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 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. 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. 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. 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 ye shall give the fifth part 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 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. 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. 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.
