47:16 Then Joseph said, “If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food 1 in exchange for 2 your livestock.” 47:17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. 3 He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for livestock.
47:18 When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our 4 lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land. 47:19 Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become 5 Pharaoh’s slaves. 6 Give us seed that we may live 7 and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.” 8