Israel went into the territory of Egypt, into the land of Goshen, on the first of the fourth month during the second year of the third week of the forty-fifth jubilee [2172].

When Joseph came to meet his father Jacob in the land of Goshen, he wrapped his arms around his father’s neck and cried.

Israel said to Joseph: ‘Now let me die after I have seen you. Now may the Lord, the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac — who has not withheld his kindness and his mercy from his servant Jacob — be blessed.

It is enough for me that I have seen your face while I am alive, because the vision that I saw in Bethel was certainly true. May the Lord my God be blessed forever and ever and may his name be blessed’.

Joseph and his brothers ate food and drank wine in front of their father. Jacob was extremely happy because in front of him he saw Joseph eating and drinking with his brothers. He blessed the creator of all who had preserved him and preserved his twelve sons for him.

As a gift Joseph gave his father and his brothers (the right) to live in the land of Goshen and in Ramses; and (he gave) them all its districts which they would rule in the pharaoh’s presence. Israel and his sons lived in the land of Goshen, the best part of the land of Egypt. Israel was 130 years of age when he came into Egypt.

Joseph provided as much food for his father, his brothers, and also for their livestock as would be sufficient for them for the seven years of famine.

As the land of Egypt suffered from the famine, Joseph gained the whole land of Egypt for the pharaoh in exchange for food. He acquired the people, their cattle, and everything for the pharaoh.

When the years of the famine were completed, Joseph gave seed and food to the people who were in the land so that they could sow seed in the eighth year because the river had overflowed the entire land of Egypt.

For during the seven years of the famine it had irrigated only a few places at the river bank, but now it overflowed. The Egyptians seeded the land, and it yielded good produce that year.

That was the first year of the fourth week of the forty-fifth jubilee [2178].

Joseph took the king’s fifth of the food which had been sown, and he left four parts for them for food and seed. Joseph made it a law for the land of Egypt until today.

Israel lived for 17 years in the land of Egypt. All of the time that he lived was three jubilees — 147 years. He died during the fourth year of the fifth week of the forty-fifth jubilee [2188].

Israel blessed his sons before he died. He told them everything that would happen to them in the land of Egypt; and he informed them (about) what would happen to them at the end of time. He blessed them and gave Joseph two shares in the land.

He slept with his fathers and was buried near his father Abraham in the double cave in the land of Canaan — in the grave which he had dug for himself in the double cave in the land of Hebron.

He gave all his books and the books of his fathers to his son Levi so that he could preserve them and renew them for his sons until today.