NASB
"So they said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's slaves.""
— Genesis 47:25, NASB
“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.”
“And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. ”
“They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."”
“They replied,“You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.””
“And they answered: our life is in thy hand; only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.”
“And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.”
“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.”
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.
Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.
"At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for those of your households and as food for your little ones."
So they said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's slaves."
Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob's life was one hundred and forty-seven years.