Catholic Public Domain Version

Genesis 46:30-34 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

30. And the father said to Joseph, "Now I will die happy, because I have seen your face, and I am leaving you behind alive."

31. And he said to his brothers and to all his father's house: "I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him: 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32. And these honorable men are pastors of sheep, and they have the task of feeding the flock. Their cattle, and herds, and all that they were able to hold, they have brought with them.'

33. And when he will call you and will say, 'What is your work?'

34. You will respond, 'Your servants are pastors of honor, from our infancy even to the present time, both we and our fathers.' Now you will say this so that you may be able to live in the land of Goshen, because the Egyptians detest all pastors of sheep."