"And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What {is} your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants {are} shepherds,…" — Genesis 47:3

Genesis 47:3 · KJV

“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.”

— Genesis 47:3

Verse 2

And he took some of his brethren, {even} five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

Verse 4

They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine {is} sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 47 — Context

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.

And he took some of his brethren, {even} five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

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.

And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

Cross References

Genesis 46:33-34

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

Genesis 4:2

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. {Abel: Heb. Hebel} {a keeper: Heb. a feeder}

Amos 7:14-15

Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I {was} no prophet, neither {was} I a prophet's son; but I {was} an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: {sycomore...: or, wild figs}

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Jonah 1:8

Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil {is} upon us; What {is} thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what {is} thy country? and of what people {art} thou?