Genesis 46:33

And if Pharaoh call you, and aske you, What is your trade?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

In Context

32And the men are shepheardes, and because they are shepheardes, they haue brought their sheepe and their cattell, and all that they haue.

34Then ye shall say, Thy seruants are men occupied about cattell, from our childehood euen vnto this time, both we and our fathers: that yee may dwell in the lande of Goshen: for euery sheepe keeper is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.

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Cross References

Genesis 46:32And the men are shepheardes, and because they are shepheardes, they haue brought their sheepe and their cattell, and all that they haue.

Genesis 47:3Then Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy seruants are shepheards, both we and our fathers.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 46:29-34

Meeting between Jacob and Joseph. ( b. c. 1706.) 28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I… Read the whole commentary →

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