Commentaire sur La Genèse 47:11

רעמסס RAMESES — This is part the land of Goshen.

AND JOSEPH SETTLED HIS FATHER AND HIS BRETHREN AND GAVE THEM A POSSESSION, etc. The meaning thereof is that he settled them in the choicest land and with the possession which he gave them since he did not want them to be as strangers in the land. Thus he bought them houses and gave them an inheritance of fields and vineyards.²³⁸Numbers 16:14. This he did with the permission of Pharaoh because they had said, “To sojourn in the land are we come,²³⁹Verse 4 here. not to live, and when the famine will pass we will return to our land.” But Pharaoh said to Joseph, Settle thy father,²⁴⁰Verse 6 here. meaning that he settle them in the manner of citizens of the land who reside in the land of Goshen.

ויושב, Joseph made his family settle in Goshen and gave them parcels of land as permanent ancestral property.