Genesis 47:6
The land of Mizraim is before thee in the best of it let thy father and thy brethren dwell, (even) in the land of Goshen: and if thou know any of them to be men of ability, appoint them to be chiefs over my flocks.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
5And Pharoh spake to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee;
7And Joseph brought Jakob his father, and presented him before Pharoh: and Jakob blessed Pharoh.
Cross References
Genesis 20:15And Abimelek said, Behold, my land is before thee: where it is pleasant in thine eyes, dwell.
Genesis 45:10And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and be near me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons’ children, and thy sheep and thy oxen, and all that thou hast.
Genesis 45:20And let not your eye look wistfully upon your furniture; for the good of all the land of Mizraim is your own.
Genesis 47:11And Joseph made his father and his brethren to dwell, and gave them a possession in the land of Mizraim, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramesis, as Pharoh had commanded.
Exodus 9:3behold, a plague from before the Lord shall be upon thy cattle which are in the field; upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep, a very great death.
Exodus 9:21But he who did not set his heart upon the word of the Lord, left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:2-13
Pharaoh's Generosity; Jacob Presented to Pharaoh. ( b. c. 1706.) 1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They… Read the whole commentary →