After his family journeyed to the land of Goshen in Egypt, Joseph brought five of his brothers and his father Jacob before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh, who invited the family to settle in Goshen. During the final five years of the famine, Joseph acting in Pharaoh’s behalf nationalized the entire economy of Egypt – accepting first all the people’s money, then their livestock, and finally their land and their servitude for Pharaoh in exchange for the food that had been stored during the preceding seven years of plenty. The statute Joseph enacted making the people Pharaoh’s servants applied equally to native Egyptians and to the Israelites sojourning in the land of Goshen.