¹⁷ Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals^(A) and return to the land of Canaan,^{(B) 18} and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt^(C) and you can enjoy the fat of the land.’^(D)

¹⁹ “You are also directed to tell them, ‘Do this: Take some carts^(E) from Egypt for your children and your wives, and get your father and come. ²⁰ Never mind about your belongings,^(F) because the best of all Egypt^(G) will be yours.’”

⁴ They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while,^(A) because the famine is severe in Canaan^(B) and your servants’ flocks have no pasture.^(C) So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”^(D)

⁵ Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you, ⁶ and the land of Egypt is before you; settle^(E) your father and your brothers in the best part of the land.^(F) Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability,^(G) put them in charge of my own livestock.^(H)”

¹¹ So they put slave masters^(A) over them to oppress them with forced labor,^(B) and they built Pithom and Rameses^(C) as store cities^(D) for Pharaoh.