33 When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘(A)What is your occupation?’ 34 you shall say, ‘Your servants have been [a](B)keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may [b]live in the land of (C)Goshen; for every shepherd is [c](D)loathsome to the Egyptians.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:34 Lit men
  2. Genesis 46:34 Lit dwell
  3. Genesis 46:34 Lit an abomination

33 When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’(A) 34 you should answer, ‘Your servants(B) have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’(C) Then you will be allowed to settle(D) in the region of Goshen,(E) for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.(F)

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