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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 47: 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47: 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How many are the days of the years of thy life?'
Genesis 47: 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: 'The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.'
Genesis 47: 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Genesis 47: 11 And Joseph placed 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.
Genesis 47: 12 And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.
Genesis 47: 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.
Genesis 47: 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 47: 15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said: 'Give us bread; for why should we die in thy presence? 
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