1 And Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brethren, and their sheep and their cattle, 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 from the whole number of his brethren, five men, and set them before Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said to his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers. 4 And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for the sheep that thy servants have, for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee. 6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land settle thy father and thy brethren: let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if thou knowest men of activity among them, then set them as overseers of cattle over what I have. 7 And Joseph brought Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph settled 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 maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones. 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through 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 grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when money came to an end in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread! for why should we die before thee? for [our] money is all gone. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle, if [your] money be all gone. 17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread for horses, and for flocks of sheep, and for herds of cattle, and for asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year. 18 And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide [it] from my lord that since [our] money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land. 19 Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the soil of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them into the cities, from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end of it. 22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land. 23 And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth to Pharaoh, and the 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 us alive. Let us find favour in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, [that] the fifth should be for Pharaoh, except the land of the priests: theirs alone did not become Pharaoh's. 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they had possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years. 29 And the days of Israel approached that he should die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, 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 when I shall lie with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word. 31◆ And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel worshipped on the bed's head.
Génesis 47 Traducción de Darby
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Personas y lugares de este capítulo
Del árbol genealógico y los mapas bíblicos de este sitio (en inglés), solo donde esas guías citan este capítulo.
Personas
Jacob
He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 25–35; 46–49
Joseph
Betrayed and enslaved, he rose to rule Egypt and saved his family from famine.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 37; 39–50
Referencias cruzadas (28)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Génesis 45:10; Génesis 46:31; Génesis 46:28; Génesis 45:16; Éxodo 9:26
- 2 Hechos 7:13; 2 Corintios 4:14; Judas 24; Colosenses 1:28
- 3 Génesis 46:33–34; 2 Tesalonicenses 3:10; Amós 7:14–15; Jonás 1:8; Génesis 4:2
- 4 Génesis 46:34; Deuteronomio 26:5; Génesis 15:13; Génesis 43:1; Hechos 7:11
- 6 Éxodo 18:21; Génesis 47:11; Proverbios 22:29; 2 Crónicas 26:10; Éxodo 18:25
- 7 Génesis 47:10; 2 Samuel 14:22; Éxodo 12:32; Lucas 22:19; Mateo 26:26
- 9 Job 14:1; Salmo 39:12; Génesis 35:28; Salmo 39:5; Éxodo 7:7
- 10 Génesis 47:7; Deuteronomio 33:1; Hebreos 7:7; 2 Samuel 8:10; Génesis 14:19
- 11 Génesis 47:6; Éxodo 12:37; Éxodo 1:11; Juan 17:24; Juan 14:2
- 12 Génesis 45:11; Marcos 7:10–13; Éxodo 20:12; Génesis 47:1; Rut 4:15
- 13 Hechos 7:11; Jeremías 9:12; Lamentaciones 4:9; Génesis 41:30–31; 1 Reyes 18:5
- 14 Génesis 41:56; Lucas 16:10–12; 1 Pedro 4:10; Lucas 16:1–2; 1 Corintios 4:2
- 15 Jueces 8:8; Jueces 8:5; Mateo 6:11; Salmo 37:3; Génesis 47:18–19
- 16 Filipenses 4:8; 1 Corintios 10:32; Proverbios 12:17; Colosenses 4:5; Daniel 6:5–7
- 17 Isaías 31:1; Job 2:4; Mateo 6:24; 1 Reyes 10:28; Éxodo 9:3
- 18 Jeremías 38:9; 2 Reyes 6:26
- 19 Nehemías 5:2–3; Job 2:4; Lamentaciones 1:11; Lamentaciones 5:9; Lamentaciones 5:6
- 21 Génesis 41:48
- 22 Esdras 7:24; Josué 21:1–45; Nehemías 13:10; 1 Corintios 9:13; Génesis 41:50
- 23 Isaías 55:10; Isaías 28:24–25; Génesis 45:6; Salmo 112:5; Proverbios 12:11
- 24 Génesis 41:34; Salmo 112:5; Salmo 41:1; Génesis 47:25; 1 Samuel 8:15–17
- 25 Génesis 33:15; Proverbios 11:26–27; Génesis 41:45; Génesis 50:20; Génesis 45:6–8
- 26 Génesis 47:22; Ezequiel 7:24
- 27 Génesis 46:3; Éxodo 1:7; Hechos 7:17; Salmo 107:38; Salmo 105:24
- 28 Salmo 90:10; Salmo 119:84; Salmo 90:12; Génesis 47:8–9; Génesis 37:2
- 29 Génesis 24:2; Deuteronomio 31:14; Génesis 24:49; 1 Reyes 2:1; Génesis 50:24–25
- 30 Génesis 49:29–32; Génesis 25:9; Génesis 23:19; Génesis 50:25; 2 Samuel 19:37
- 31 1 Reyes 1:47; Génesis 24:3; Hebreos 11:21; Génesis 47:29; Génesis 24:26
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
¿Por qué mi Biblia dice algo distinto?
- Hebreos 11:21 y Génesis 47:31: ¿el bastón de Jacob o la cama de Jacob?
En el texto hebreo de Génesis 47:31, Israel se inclina «sobre la cabecera de la cama». En la Septuaginta se inclina «sobre la punta de su bastón», y Hebreos 11:21 cita el griego. Las consonantes hebreas pueden leerse de ambas maneras; solo las vocales, añadidas más tarde, deciden. La Iglesia ortodoxa lee «bastón», y san Juan Damasceno usó el versículo al defender la veneración de las cosas santas.
Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
"Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been," said Jacob, and elsewhere "all the days of my life." Thus under the form of history the law is laid down for what is to follow.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)