Vayigash

B'reisheet 44:18 - 47:27
B’reisheet 44:18 And Yehuḏah came near to him and said, “O my master, please let your servant speak a word in my master’s hearing, and do not let your displeasure burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.
B’reisheet 44:19 “My master asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’
B’reisheet 44:20 “And we said to my master, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young child of his old age, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’
B’reisheet 44:21 “And you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, and let me set my eyes on him.’
B’reisheet 44:22 “And we said to my master, ‘The boy is not able to leave his father, for if he leaves his father, his father shall die.’
B’reisheet 44:23 “But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you do not see my face again.’
B’reisheet 44:24 “And it came to be, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my master.
B’reisheet 44:25 “And our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’
B’reisheet 44:26 “But we said, ‘We are not able to go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down, for we are not able to see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
B’reisheet 44:27 “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons,
B’reisheet 44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said, “Truly, he is torn, torn to pieces!” And I have not seen him since.
B’reisheet 44:29 ‘And if you take this one from me too, and harm comes to him, you shall bring down my grey hair with evil to the grave.’
B’reisheet 44:30 “And now, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us – since his own life is bound up in his life –
B’reisheet 44:31 then it shall be, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he shall die. So your servants shall bring down the grey hair of your servant our father with evil to the grave.
B’reisheet 44:32 “For your servant went guaranty for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall be a sinner before my father forever.’
B’reisheet 44:33 “And now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
B’reisheet 44:34 “For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”
B’reisheet 45:1 And Yosĕf was unable to restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he called out, “Have everyone go out from me!” So no one stood with him while Yosĕf made himself known to his brothers.
B’reisheet 45:2 And he wept aloud, and the Mitsrites and the house of Pharaoh heard it.
B’reisheet 45:3 And Yosĕf said to his brothers, “I am Yosĕf, is my father still alive?” But his brothers were unable to answer him, for they trembled before him.
B’reisheet 45:4 Then Yosĕf said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” And when they came near, he said, “I am Yosĕf your brother, whom you sold into Mitsrayim.
B’reisheet 45:5 “And now, do not be grieved nor displeased with yourselves because you sold me here, for Elohim sent me before you to preserve life.
B’reisheet 45:6 “For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither plowing nor harvesting.
B’reisheet 45:7 “And Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to give life to you by a great escape.
B’reisheet 45:8 “So then, you did not send me here, but Elohim. And He has set me for a father to Pharaoh, and master of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.
B’reisheet 45:9 “Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Yosĕf, “Elohim has made me master of all Mitsrayim. Come down to me, do not delay.
B’reisheet 45:10 “And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and be near to me, you and your children, your children’s children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.
B’reisheet 45:11 “And I shall provide for you there, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty, because five years of scarcity of food are still to come.” ’
B’reisheet 45:12 “And look, your eyes and the eyes of my brother Binyamin see that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
B’reisheet 45:13 “And you shall inform my father of all my esteem in Mitsrayim, and of all that you have seen. And you shall hurry and bring my father down here.”
B’reisheet 45:14 And he fell on his brother Binyamin’s neck and wept, and Binyamin wept on his neck.
B’reisheet 45:15 And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and after that his brothers spoke with him.
B’reisheet 45:16 And the report of it was heard by the house of Pharaoh, saying, “The brothers of Yosĕf have come.” And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants.
B’reisheet 45:17 And Pharaoh said to Yosĕf, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your beasts and go, enter the land of Kenaʽan,
B’reisheet 45:18 and take your father and your households and come to me, and I give you the best of the land of Mitsrayim, and you eat the fat of the land.
B’reisheet 45:19 ‘And you, you have been commanded, do this: Take wagons out of the land of Mitsrayim for your little ones and your wives. And you shall bring your father, and come.
B’reisheet 45:20 ‘And do not be concerned about your goods, for the best of all the land of Mitsrayim is yours.’ ”
B’reisheet 45:21 And the sons of Yisra’ĕl did so. And Yosĕf gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and he gave them food for the journey.
B’reisheet 45:22 He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.
B’reisheet 45:23 And he sent to his father this: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Mitsrayim, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, and bread, and food for his father for the journey.
B’reisheet 45:24 So he sent his brothers away, and they left. And he said to them, “Do not quarrel along the way.”
B’reisheet 45:25 And they went up out of Mitsrayim, and came to the land of Kenaʽan to Ya`akov̱ their father.
B’reisheet 45:26 And they told him, saying, “Yosĕf is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Mitsrayim.” And Ya`akov’s heart ceased, for he did not believe them.
B’reisheet 45:27 But when they spoke to him all the words which Yosĕf had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons which Yosĕf had sent to transport him, the spirit of Ya`akov̱ their father revived.
B’reisheet 45:28 And Yisra’ĕl said, “Enough! My son Yosĕf is still alive. Let me go and see him before I die.”
B’reisheet 46:1 And Yisra’ĕl set out with all that he had, and came to Be’ĕrsheḇa, and brought offerings to the Elohim of his father Yitzchak.
B’reisheet 46:2 And Elohim spoke to Yisra’ĕl in the visions of the night, and said, “Ya`akov̱, Ya`akov̱!” And he said, “Here I am.”
B’reisheet 46:3 And He said, “I am the Ěl, Elohim of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Mitsrayim, for I shall make you there into a great nation.
B’reisheet 46:4 “I Myself am going down with you to Mitsrayim and I Myself shall certainly bring you up again. And let Yosĕf put his hand on your eyes.”
B’reisheet 46:5 And Ya`akov̱ rose up from Be’ĕrsheḇa. And the sons of Yisra’ĕl brought their father Ya`akov̱, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
B’reisheet 46:6 And they took their livestock and their property which they had acquired in the land of Kenaʽan, and came into Mitsrayim, Ya`akov̱ and all his seed with him.
B’reisheet 46:7 His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed he brought with him to Mitsrayim.
B’reisheet 46:8 And these were the names of the children of Yisra’ĕl, Ya`akov̱ and his sons, who came into Mitsrayim: Re’uḇĕn was Ya`akov’s first-born.
B’reisheet 46:9 And the sons of Re’uḇĕn: Ḥanoḵ, and Pallu, and Ḥetsron, and Karmi.
B’reisheet 46:10 And the sons of Shimʽon: Yemu’ĕl, and Yamin, and Ohaḏ, and Yaḵin, and Tsoḥar, and Sha’ul, son of a Kenaʽanite woman.
B’reisheet 46:11 And the sons of Lĕwi: Gĕreshon, Qehath, and Merari.
B’reisheet 46:12 And the sons of Yehuḏah: Ěr, and Onan, and Shĕlah, and Perets, and Zeraḥ – but Ěr and Onan died in the land of Kenaʽan. And the sons of Perets were Ḥetsron and Ḥamul.
B’reisheet 46:13 And the sons of Yissasḵar: Tola, and Puwʽah, and Yoḇ, and Shimron.
B’reisheet 46:14 And the sons of Zeḇulun: Sereḏ, and Ělon, and Yaḥle’ĕl.
B’reisheet 46:15 These were the sons of Lĕ’ah, whom she bore to Ya`akov̱ in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the beings, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three.
B’reisheet 46:16 And the sons of Gaḏ: Tsiphyon and Ḥaggi, Shuni and Etsbon, Ěri and Aroḏi, and Arĕli.
B’reisheet 46:17 And the sons of Ashĕr: Yimnah, and Yishwah, and Yishwi, and Beriʽah, and Seraḥ, their sister. And the sons of Beriʽah: Ḥeḇer and Malki’ĕl.
B’reisheet 46:18 These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laḇan gave to Lĕ’ah his daughter. And these she bore to Ya`akov̱: sixteen beings.
B’reisheet 46:19 The sons of Raḥĕl, Ya`akov’s wife: Yosĕf and Binyamin.
B’reisheet 46:20 And to Yosĕf in the land of Mitsrayim were born Menashsheh and Ephrayim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.
B’reisheet 46:21 And the sons of Binyamin: Belah, and Beḵer, and Ashbĕl, Gĕra and Naʽaman, Ěḥi and Rosh, Muppim and Ḥuppim, and Ard.
B’reisheet 46:22 These were the sons of Raḥĕl who were born to Ya`akov̱: fourteen beings in all.
B’reisheet 46:23 And the son of Dan: Ḥushim.
B’reisheet 46:24 And the sons of Naphtali: Yaḥtse’ĕl, and Guni, and Yĕtser, and Shillĕm.
B’reisheet 46:25 These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laḇan gave to Raḥĕl his daughter, and she bore these to Ya`akov̱: seven beings in all.
B’reisheet 46:26 All the beings who went with Ya`akov̱ to Mitsrayim, who came from his body, besides Ya`akov’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six beings in all.
B’reisheet 46:27 And the sons of Yosĕf who were born to him in Mitsrayim were two beings. All the beings of the house of Ya`akov̱ who went to Mitsrayim were seventy.
B’reisheet 46:28 And he sent Yehuḏah before him to Yosĕf, to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.
B’reisheet 46:29 And Yosĕf made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Yisra’ĕl. And he appeared to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.
B’reisheet 46:30 And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕf, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
B’reisheet 46:31 And Yosĕf said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I am going up to inform Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Kenaʽan, have come to me.
B’reisheet 46:32 ‘And the men are shepherds, that they have been men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds, and all that they have.’
B’reisheet 46:33 “And it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’
B’reisheet 46:34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ so that you dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitsrites.”
B’reisheet 47:1 Then Yosĕf went and spoke to Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Kenaʽan. And see, they are in the land of Goshen.”
B’reisheet 47:2 And he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
B’reisheet 47:3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.”
B’reisheet 47:4 And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to dwell in the land, because there is no pasture for your servant’s flocks, for the scarcity of food is severe in the land of Kenaʽan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
B’reisheet 47:5 And Pharaoh spoke to Yosĕf, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
B’reisheet 47:6 “The land of Mitsrayim is before you. Settle your father and brothers in the best of the land, let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of capable men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock.”
B’reisheet 47:7 And Yosĕf brought in his father Ya`akov̱ and set him before Pharaoh. And Ya`akov̱ blessed Pharaoh.
B’reisheet 47:8 And Pharaoh said to Ya`akov̱, “How old are you?”
B’reisheet 47:9 And Ya`akov̱ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”
B’reisheet 47:10 And Ya`akov̱ blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
B’reisheet 47:11 So Yosĕf settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Mitsrayim, in the best of the land, in the land of Raʽmeses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
B’reisheet 47:12 And Yosĕf provided his father, and his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread for the mouth of the little ones.
B’reisheet 47:13 Now there was no bread in all the land, because the scarcity of food was very severe, and the land of Mitsrayim and all the land of Kenaʽan became exhausted from the scarcity of food.
B’reisheet 47:14 And Yosĕf gathered up all the silver that was found in the land of Mitsrayim and in the land of Kenaʽan, for the grain which they bought. And Yosĕf brought the silver into Pharaoh’s house.
B’reisheet 47:15 And when the silver was all spent in the land of Mitsrayim and in the land of Kenaʽan, all the Mitsrites came to Yosĕf and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the silver is gone!”
B’reisheet 47:16 And Yosĕf said, “Give your livestock, and I give you bread for your livestock, if the silver is gone.”
B’reisheet 47:17 So they brought their livestock to Yosĕf, and Yosĕf gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks they owned, and for the herds they owned, and for the donkeys. Thus he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.
B’reisheet 47:18 And when that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We do not hide from my master that our silver is all spent, and my master also has the livestock we owned. There has not any been left before my master but our bodies and our lands.
B’reisheet 47:19 “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and let us and our land be servants of Pharaoh. And give us seed, and let us live and not die, and let the land not lie waste.”
B’reisheet 47:20 And Yosĕf bought the entire land of Mitsrayim for Pharaoh, because every man of the Mitsrites sold his field, because the scarcity of food was severe upon them. And the land came to be Pharaoh’s.
B’reisheet 47:21 And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Mitsrayim to the other end.
B’reisheet 47:22 Only the ground of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had portions allotted to them by Pharaoh, and they ate their portions which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their ground.
B’reisheet 47:23 And Yosĕf said to the people, “Look, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Look, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
B’reisheet 47:24 “And it shall be that in the harvest you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh. And four-fifths is your own, as seed for the field and for your food, for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”
B’reisheet 47:25 And they said, “You have saved our lives. Let us find favor in the eyes of my master, and we shall become Pharaoh’s slaves.”
B’reisheet 47:26 And Yosĕf made it a law over the land of Mitsrayim to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth, except for the ground of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh’s.
B’reisheet 47:27 And Yisra’ĕl dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim, in the land of Goshen. And they had possessions there and bore fruit and increased exceedingly.