Joseph presented 5 of his brothers to Pharoah and then presented his 130-year-old father. Pharoah told them they could live in the best land in Goshen and Jacob blessed Pharoah twice. Jacob and his people all received food to help them survive the drought. The famine continued and people began to run out of money to purchase food from the government stores so Joseph started to receive the people's livestock in exchange for food. When the livestock ran out Joseph accepted the people themselves and their land in exchange for food, and reduced all the people to slavery. But Joseph distributed seed for everyone to plant on the condition that 20% of the produce would go to the Pharoah. Meanwhile the Israelites prospered in Goshen and greatly increased in number. When Jacob approached his death at the age of 147 he made Joseph swear that he would bury him when he died in his ancestral burial place in Canaan.
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