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Hospitality: Pharaoh to Jacob Genesis 45:16–20

When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased. / Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan. / Then bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.’

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Hospitality: Pharaoh to Jacob Genesis 47:7–12

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. / “How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked. / “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

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